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and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD
for a wave offering of the sons of Israel, and they shall serve in the ministry of the LORD.
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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and thou shalt offer the one as
the sin, and the other as a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to reconcile the Levites.
13
And thou shalt cause the Levites to present themselves before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them
for an offering unto the LORD.
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And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
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Thus shall the Levites go in to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt cleanse them and wave them
for an offering.
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For they
are completely given unto me from among the sons of Israel, instead of each one that opens the womb;
instead of the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for myself.
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For all the firstborn of the sons of Israel
are mine,
both of man and of animals; from the day that
I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
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And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.
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And I have given the Levites
as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, that they may serve the ministry of the sons of Israel in the tabernacle of the testimony and reconcile the sons of Israel, that there be no plague in the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near unto the sanctuary.
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And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the sons of Israel unto them.
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And the sin was removed from the Levites, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them
for a wave offering before the LORD; and Aaron reconciled them to cleanse them.