12 The Levites shall then put their hands on the heads of the two bulls; one is to be offered as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, in order to perform the ritual of purification for the Levites.
13 “Dedicate the Levites as a special gift to me, and put Aaron and his sons in charge of them.
14 Separate the Levites in this way from the rest of the Israelites, so that they will belong to me.
15 After you have purified and dedicated the Levites, they will be qualified to work in the Tent.
16 I have claimed them in the place of all the first-born sons of the Israelites, and they belong to me alone.
17 When I killed all the first-born in Egypt, I consecrated as my own the oldest son of each Israelite family and the first-born of every animal.
18 I am now taking the Levites instead of all the first-born of the Israelites,