Numbers 7:84   (Read all of Numbers 7)

These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.

Numbers 7:85   (Read all of Numbers 7)

Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Numbers 7:86   (Read all of Numbers 7)

The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.

Numbers 7:87   (Read all of Numbers 7)

The total number of animals for the burnt offering came to twelve young bulls, twelve rams and twelve male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering. Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.

Numbers 7:88   (Read all of Numbers 7)

The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.

Numbers 7:89   (Read all of Numbers 7)

When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law. In this way the Lord spoke to him.

Numbers 8:1   (Read all of Numbers 8)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 8:2   (Read all of Numbers 8)

"Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.' "

Numbers 8:3   (Read all of Numbers 8)

Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:4   (Read all of Numbers 8)

This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold-from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.

Numbers 8:5   (Read all of Numbers 8)

The Lord said to Moses:

Numbers 8:7   (Read all of Numbers 8)

To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves.

Numbers 8:8   (Read all of Numbers 8)

Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

Numbers 8:11   (Read all of Numbers 8)

Aaron is to present the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the Lord.

Numbers 8:12   (Read all of Numbers 8)

"Then the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, using one for a sin offering to the Lord and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

Numbers 8:13   (Read all of Numbers 8)

Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the Lord.

Numbers 8:14   (Read all of Numbers 8)

In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

Numbers 8:17   (Read all of Numbers 8)

Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.

Numbers 8:18   (Read all of Numbers 8)

And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.

Numbers 8:19   (Read all of Numbers 8)

From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary."

Numbers 8:22   (Read all of Numbers 8)

After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:23   (Read all of Numbers 8)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 8:24   (Read all of Numbers 8)

"This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting,

Numbers 8:25   (Read all of Numbers 8)

but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer.