8. Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering.
9. You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.
10. Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;
11. and 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.
12. When 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.
13. You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
14. And 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.
16. For 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.