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Numbers 8 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:1 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:2 - Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him, Whenever thou shalt set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the candlestick.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3 - And Aaron did so: on one side opposite the candlestick he lighted its lamps, as the Lord appointed Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:4 - And this is the [fn]construction of the candlestick: it is solid, golden—its stem, and its lilies—all solid: according to the pattern which the Lord shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:5 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:7 - And thus shalt thou perform their purification: thou shalt sprinkle them with water of purification, and a razor shall come upon the whole of their body, and they shall wash their garments, and shall be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:8 - And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its meat-offering, fine flour mingled with oil: and thou shalt take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin-offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel: and they shall be prepared [fn]to perform the works of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and thou shalt offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - And thou shalt set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and thou shalt give them as a gift before the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - And thou shalt separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For these are given to me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to myself instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel that open every womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For every first-born among the children of Israel is mine, whether of man or beast: in the day in which I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I took the Levites in the place of every first-born among the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw nigh to the holy things.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments; and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:23 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - This is the ordinance for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to [fn]minister in the tabernacle of witness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:25 - And from fifty years old the Levite shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.
BES Footnotes
Or, Appointment, or arrangement.
Gr. so as to perform.
Gr. do the work.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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