Numbers 8:20

20 Moses, Aaron, and the entire community of the People of Israel carried out these procedures with the Levites, just as God had commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 8:20

And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children
of Israel
The several parties concerned in the consecration of the Levites: these did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses,
so did the children of Israel unto them:
which, as Jarchi notes, is said to the praise of them that did it, and of what was done by them; everything was done that was ordered, and in the manner in which it was prescribed; Moses sprinkled, or ordered to be sprinkled, the water of purification on them, and set them before the tabernacle, and before the Lord; the children of Israel laid their hands on them, and Aaron waved them, offered the sacrifices for them.

Numbers 8:20 In-Context

18 But now I take the Levites as stand-ins in place of every firstborn son in Israel,

19 selected out of the People of Israel, and I have given the Levites to Aaron and his sons to do all the work involved in the Tent of Meeting on behalf of all the People of Israel and to make atonement for them so that nothing bad will happen to them when they approach the Sanctuary."

20 Moses, Aaron, and the entire community of the People of Israel carried out these procedures with the Levites, just as God had commanded Moses.

21 The Levites purified themselves and scrubbed their clothes. Then Aaron presented them as a Wave-Offering before God and made atonement for them to purify them.

22 Only then did the Levites go to work at the Tent of Meeting. Aaron and his sons supervised them following the directions God had given.