To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing(A) on them; then have them shave their whole bodies(B) and wash their clothes.(C) And so they will purify themselves.(D) Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil;(E) then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.[a](F) Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting(G) and assemble the whole Israelite community.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:8 Or purification offering; also in verse 12

Here is how you are to cleanse them: sprinkle the purification water on them, have them shave their whole body with a razor, and have them wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering, which is to be fine flour mixed with olive oil; while you take another bull for a sin offering. You are to present the L’vi’im in front of the tent of meeting, and assemble the entire community of the people of Isra’el.

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