Numbers

¹¹and 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. ¹²When 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. ¹³You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. ¹⁴And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine. ¹⁵“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. ¹⁶For 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. ¹⁷For 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.