1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the seven lamps on the lamp stand, they should light up the area in front of it.”
3. So Aaron set up the lamps on the lamp stand to light up the area in front of it, as the Lord commanded Moses.
4. This is how the lamp stand was made: The whole lamp stand, from top to bottom, was hammered out of gold. It was made exactly like the one the Lord had shown Moses.
5. The Lord said to Moses,
6. “Separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and make them clean.
7. This is what you must do to make them clean: Sprinkle them with water to take away their sins. Make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. Then they will be clean.
8. Next, they must take a young bull and the grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil that is offered with it. You must take a second young bull as an offering for sin.
9. Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole community of Israel.
10. Then bring the Levites into the Lord’s presence, and the Israelites will place their hands on them.
11. Aaron will present the Levites to the Lord as an offering from the Israelites. Then they will be ready to do the Lord’s work.
12. “The Levites will place their hands on the heads of the young bulls. Sacrifice one of them as an offering for sin and the other one as a burnt offering to the Lord. These sacrifices will make peace with the Lord for the Levites.