13 And you will present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and he will offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
14 “And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites, and the Levites will be for me.
15 And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer them as a wave offering.
16 For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites.
17 For every firstborn among the Israelites is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,
18 and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
19 And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the Israelites to do the work of the Israelites in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the Israelites, so a plague will not be among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”