Verse 24
Numbers 8:24
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
24
This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
Original Language Text
hebrew
זֹ֖את אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַ/לְוִיִּ֑ם מִ/בֶּן֩ חָמֵ֨שׁ וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָ/מַ֔עְלָ/ה יָבוֹא֙ לִ/צְבֹ֣א צָבָ֔א בַּ/עֲבֹדַ֖ת אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד
English Translation
This is what belongs to the Levites: from the age of twenty-five years and upward, they shall come to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.
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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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