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Then let them take a young bullock with his present,
even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou offer as sin.
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And thou shalt offer the Levites before the tabernacle of the testimony, and thou shalt gather the whole congregation of the sons of Israel together;
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and thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD, and the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites;
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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.
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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.