Verse 21
Numbers 8:21
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
21
And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lard, and prayed for them,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּֽתְחַטְּא֣וּ הַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם וַֽ/יְכַבְּסוּ֙ בִּגְדֵי/הֶ֔ם וַ/יָּ֨נֶף אַהֲרֹ֥ן אֹתָ֛/ם תְּנוּפָ֖ה לִ/פְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יְכַפֵּ֧ר עֲלֵי/הֶ֛ם אַהֲרֹ֖ן לְ/טַהֲרָֽ/ם
English Translation
And the Levites shall cleanse themselves, and they shall wash their garments, and Aaron shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron shall make atonement for them to purify them.
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Chapter 8 Context
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestic...
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And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and a...
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
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Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,
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According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of purification, and let them shave all...
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They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof fine flour tempered with oil: and th...
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And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the covenant, calling together all the mul...
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And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them:
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And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, t...
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The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one...
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And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt consecrate them bein...
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And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine.
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And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt tho...
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I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb in Israel,
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For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and of beasts, are mine. From the day t...
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And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel:
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And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me...
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And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of Israel did with the Levites all that th...
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And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lard...
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That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the covenant to do their services before Aa...
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister...
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And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
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And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the thi...
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