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.
13. Make the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons, and present them as an offering to the Lord.
14. In this way you will separate the Levites from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
15. “Once you have made them clean and presented them as an offering, the Levites may come and do their work at the tent of meeting.
16. They will be the only Israelites given to me. I have taken them to be mine as substitutes for every firstborn male offspring of the Israelites.
17. Every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. The day I killed every firstborn male in Egypt, I set them apart as holy to me.