Numbers 8 (NET)

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Numbers 8:1¹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:2²“Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 25:37 2 Pet 1:19 Exod 37:18-19 Exod 37:23 Exod 40:25 John 1:9 Lev 24:1-2 Lev 24:4 Matt 5:14 Ps 119:105

Numbers 8:3³And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:4⁴This is how the lampstand was made: It was beaten work in gold; from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern that the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 25:18 Exod 25:31-40 Exod 25:9 Exod 37:17-24 1 Chr 28:11-19 Exod 37:7 Heb 8:5 Heb 9:23

Numbers 8:5⁵Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:6⁶“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:1 Jas 4:8 Exod 19:15 Isa 52:11

Numbers 8:7⁷And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 8:6 Num 19:13 Num 19:7-10 1 Pet 3:21 Exod 19:10 Gen 35:2 Heb 9:10 Heb 9:13 Isa 52:15 Jas 4:8

Numbers 8:8⁸Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 2:1 2 Cor 5:21 Exod 29:1 Exod 29:3 Isa 53:10 Lev 1:3 Lev 16:3 Lev 4:14 Lev 4:3 Lev 8:2

Numbers 8:9⁹You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 40:12 Lev 8:3 Exod 29:4-37

Numbers 8:10¹⁰Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 6:6 Lev 1:4 1 Tim 4:14 1 Tim 5:22 Acts 13:2-3 Num 3:45

Numbers 8:11¹¹and Aaron is to offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 7:30 Exod 29:24 Lev 8:27 Lev 8:29 Num 1:49-53 Num 3:5-43 Num 6:20

Numbers 8:12¹²When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 10:4-10 Exod 29:10 Heb 9:22 Lev 1:4 Lev 8:14 Num 8:8 Lev 14:19-20 Lev 14:22 Lev 16:11 Lev 16:16-19

Numbers 8:13¹³You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 8:11 Num 8:21 Num 18:6 Rom 12:1 Rom 15:16

Numbers 8:14¹⁴And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mal 3:17 Num 18:6 Num 3:45 Deut 10:8 Gal 1:15 Heb 7:26 Num 16:9-10 Num 3:12 Num 6:2 Num 8:17

Numbers 8:15¹⁵“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 8:11 Num 8:13 1 Chr 23:1-32 1 Chr 25:1-26 Exod 29:24 Num 3:12 Num 3:23-37 Num 4:3-32

Numbers 8:16¹⁶For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 3:12 Num 3:45 Num 3:9

Numbers 8:17¹⁷For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 13:2 Luke 2:23 Exod 13:12-15 Exod 12:29 Exod 29:44 Ezek 20:12 Heb 10:29 Heb 11:28 Jas 1:18 John 10:36

Numbers 8:18¹⁸So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:19¹⁹I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 1:53 Num 16:46 2 Chr 26:16-20 1 Chr 23:28-32 1 Sam 6:19 Ezek 44:11-14 Num 18:2-6 Num 3:6-9

Numbers 8:20²⁰So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:21²¹The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 8:7 Num 19:19 Num 8:11-13 Num 8:15 Num 19:12 Num 3:12

Numbers 8:22²²After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 30:15-17 2 Chr 30:27 2 Chr 31:2 2 Chr 35:8-15 Num 8:15

Numbers 8:23²³Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 8:24²⁴“This is what pertains to the Levites: At the age of twenty-five years and upward one may begin to join the company in the work of the tent of meeting,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 4:3 1 Chr 23:3 Num 4:23 1 Chr 23:24-27 1 Chr 28:12-13 1 Cor 9:7 2 Cor 10:4 2 Tim 2:3-5 1 Tim 1:18 1 Tim 6:12

Numbers 8:25²⁵and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 4:23 2 Tim 4:7

Numbers 8:26²⁶They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 1:53 1 Chr 23:32 1 Chr 26:20-29 1 Tim 4:15 Ezek 44:11 Ezek 44:8 Num 18:4 Num 3:32 Num 31:30