Numbers 8:15

After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

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In The King James Version

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

In Context

14So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

16For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.

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Cross References

Numbers 3:12See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

Numbers 4:3All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

Numbers 8:13Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 25:1Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:

Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:6-26

The Consecration of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. 9 And thou… Read the whole commentary →

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