These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 8
Tanakh 26 verses
- 1 And spoke unto , saying:
- 2 Speak unto , and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.’
- 3 And did so: he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the candlestick, as commanded .
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And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which had shown , so he made the candlestick.
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- 5 And spoke unto , saying:
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Take the Levites from among the children of , and cleanse them.
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And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their , and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
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Numbers 19:13 Leviticus 8:6 Numbers 31:20 Leviticus 15:6 Leviticus 16:28 Genesis 35:2 Ezekiel 36:25 Numbers 19:17-19 Psalm 51:7 Hebrews 9:13 Leviticus 15:10-11 Matthew 23:25-26 James 4:8 Numbers 19:7-10 Isaiah 52:15 Jeremiah 4:14 Exodus 19:10 Leviticus 15:27 Hebrews 9:10 Leviticus 14:7-9 1 Peter 3:21 Psalm 51:2 Revelation 7:14 - 8 Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-, fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-.
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And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting; and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of .
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And thou shalt present the Levites before ; and the children of shall lay their hands upon the Levites.
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And shall offer the Levites before for a wave- from the children of , that they may be to do the service of .
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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and offer thou the one for a sin-, and the other for a burnt-, unto , to make for the Levites.
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Exodus 29:10 Leviticus 8:14 Leviticus 1:4 Numbers 8:8 Numbers 6:16 Leviticus 5:7 Leviticus 8:34 Leviticus 4:35 Numbers 6:14 Hebrews 10:4-10 Leviticus 4:20 Leviticus 16:6 Leviticus 14:22 Leviticus 16:21 Leviticus 14:19-20 Leviticus 8:18 Leviticus 16:11 Leviticus 9:7 Leviticus 16:16-19 Hebrews 9:22 Leviticus 5:9-10 -
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And thou shalt set the Levites before , and before his sons, and offer them for a wave- unto .
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- 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of ; and the Levites shall be Mine.
- 15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-.
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For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of ; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of , have I taken them unto Me.
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- 17 For all the first-born among the children of are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of I sanctified them for Myself.
- 18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of .
- 19 And I have given the Levites—they are given to and to his sons from among the children of , to do the service of the children of in the tent of meeting, and to make for the children of , that there be no plague among the children of , through the children of coming nigh unto the .’
- 20 Thus did , and , and all the congregation of the children of , unto the Levites; according unto all that commanded touching the Levites, so did the children of unto them.
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And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and offered them for a sacred before ; and made for them to cleanse them.
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And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before , and before his sons; as had commanded concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
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- 23 And spoke unto , saying:
- 24 This is that which pertaineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting;
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and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall no more;
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- 26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.’