Numbers 8:6-11 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and purify them.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and purify them. ⁷ And in this manner thou shalt perform their purification. Thou shalt sprinkle them with the water of purification, and a razor shall pass over their whole body, and they shall wash their clothes, and they will be clean. ⁸ Then they shall take a young bull from the herd, with his sacrifice, to wit, fine flour mixed up with oil; and thou shalt take a yearling bull from the herd for a sin offering, ⁹ and bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the testimony, and assemble all the congregation of Israel's sons, ¹⁰ and present the Levites before the Lord. And the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites; ¹¹ and Aaron shall set the Levites apart before the Lord, as a gift from the sons of Israel; and they shall be set apart to perform the works of the Lord.