Numbers 8:11-18

Lexham English Bible

¹¹ and Aaron will offer^[a] the Levites as a wave offering before Yahweh^[b] from the Israelites,^[c] and they will do the work of Yahweh. ¹² And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. ¹³ And you will present the Levites before^[d] Aaron and before^[e] his sons, and he will offer^[f] them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

¹⁴ “And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites,^[g] and the Levites will be for me. ¹⁵ And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer^[h] them as a wave offering. ¹⁶ For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites.^[i] I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites.^{[j] 17} For every firstborn among the Israelites^[k] is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me, ¹⁸ and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the Israelites.^[l]