7. This is what you must do to them to make them clean: Sprinkle the purifying water on them, then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, thus purifying themselves.
8. “Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, plus a second young bull for a sin offering.
9. Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting, and gather the whole community of Bnei-Yisrael.
10. Bring the Levites before Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael will lay their hands on the Levites,
11. and Aaron will present the Levites before Adonai as a wave offering from Bnei-Yisrael. Then they may go about the work of the service of Adonai.
12. “The Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls. Use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Adonai to make atonement for the Levites.
13. Have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and present them as a wave offering to Adonai.
14. In this way you are to set apart the Levites from Bnei-Yisrael to be Mine.
15. After you have purified them and presented them as a wave offering, the Levites will come to do their work at the Tent of Meeting.
16. For they are the ones from among Bnei-Yisrael given to Me in place of all the first from the wombs of Bnei-Yisrael. I have taken them for Myself.
17. “For every firstborn among Bnei-Yisrael is Mine, whether human or animal. On the day I struck down the firstborn of the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.