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You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Yisra'el.
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You shall present the Levites before the LORD. The children of Yisra'el shall lay their hands on the Levites,
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and Aharon shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.
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The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
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You shall set the Levites before Aharon, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
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Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el, and the Levites shall be mine.
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"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
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For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Yisra'el; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisra'el, I have taken them to me.
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For all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, I sanctified them for myself.
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I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el.
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I have given the Levites as a gift to Aharon and to his sons from among the children of Yisra'el, to do the service of the children of Yisra'el in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra'el; that there be no plague among the children of Yisra'el, when the children of Yisra'el come near to the sanctuary."