¹² and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. ^(A)Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(B)to the place that I have prepared for it.

⁶ And slaughter the Passover lamb, and ^(A)consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by^[a] Moses.”

¹⁴ So Moses ^(A)went down from the mountain to the people and ^(B)consecrated the people; ^(C)and they washed their garments. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, “Be ready for the ^(D)third day; ^(E)do not go near a woman.”

^15 (A)And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. ^(B)And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, ^(C)so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁹ And they sang ^(A)a new song, saying,

A Living Sacrifice

12 ^(A)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, ^(B)to present your bodies ^(C)as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.^{[b] 2 (D)}Do not be conformed to this world,^[c] but be transformed by ^(E)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may ^(F)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.^[d]

^17 (A)Sanctify them^[a] in the truth; ^(B)your word is truth.

¹¹ This shall be for ^(A)the consecrated priests, ^(B)the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, ^(C)as the Levites did.