4aNow this workmanship of the lampstand was hammered gold; from its shaft to its flowers it wasbhammered work. cAccording to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them ceremonially.
7 Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: aSprinkle water of purification on them, and blet them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
8 Then let them take a young bull with aits grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull as a sin offering.
9aAnd you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of meeting, band you shall gather together the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
10 So you shall bring the Levites before the Lord, and the children of Israel ashall lay their hands on the Levites;
11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lordlike a awave offering from the children of Israel, that they may perform the work of the Lord.
12aThen the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls, and you shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 “And you shall stand the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them like a wave offering to the Lord.
14 Thus you shall aseparate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be bMine.
15 After that the Levites shall go in to service the tabernacle of meeting. So you shall cleanse them and aoffer them like a wave offering.
16 For they areawholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself binstead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.
17aFor all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I1 sanctified them to Myself.
NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.
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