1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron, and you will say to him: In your causing the lights to go up, the seven lights will give light toward the front of the face of the lampstand.” 3 And Aaron did so. He caused its lights to go up toward the front of the face of the lampstand, as YHWH had commanded Moses. 4 And this will be the work of the lampstand: beaten work of gold. From its thigh to its flower it will be beaten work. As the appearance which YHWH showed Moses, so he had made the lampstand. 5 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 6 “Take the Levites from the middle of the sons of Israel, and you cleanse them. 7 And thus you will do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle waters of atonement on them, and they have caused a razor to pass over all their flesh, and will wash their garments, and cleanse themselves, 8 and will take a bullock, a son of the herd, and its present, flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second bullock, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering. 9 And you will bring the Levites near before the Tent of Meeting, and you will assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel, 10 and you will bring the Levites near before YHWH, and the sons of Israel will lay their hands on the Levites, 11 and Aaron will wave the Levites as a wave-offering before YHWH, from the sons of Israel, and they will be consecrated for doing the service of YHWH. 12 And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the bullocks, and make one a sin-offering and one a burnt-offering to YHWH, to atone for the Levites. 13 And you have caused the Levites to stand before Aaron, and before his sons, and will wave them as a wave-offering to YHWH. 14 And you will separate the Levites from the middle of the sons of Israel, and the Levites will become Mine. 15 And afterward the Levites will come in to serve the Tent of Meeting, and you will cleanse them, and wave them as a wave-offering. 16 For they will be certainly given to Me out of the middle of the sons of Israel, instead of him who opens any womb—the firstborn of all. I will take them for Myself from the sons of Israel. 17 For every firstborn among the sons of Israel will be Mine, among man and among beast. In the day of My striking every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself. 18 And I will take the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel. 19 And I will give the Levites as gifts to Aaron and to his sons, from the middle of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, and there will be no plague among the sons of Israel in the sons of Israel drawing near to the holy place.” 20 And Moses did—Aaron also, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel—to the Levites according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. So the sons of Israel had done to them. 21 And the Levites cleansed themselves, and washed their garments, and Aaron waved them as a wave-offering before YHWH, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them, 22 and afterward the Levites had gone in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting, before Aaron and before his sons. As YHWH had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they had done to them. 23 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “This is who will be for the Levites: from a son of 25 years and upward he will go in to serve the host in the service of the Tent of Meeting, 25 and from a son of 50 years he will return from the host of the service, and will not serve anymore, 26 and he will minister with his brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and will not do service. Thus you will do to the Levites concerning their charge.”