New International Reader's Version

Numbers 8:13-16 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. "Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons. Then give them as a wave offering to me.

14. That is how I want you to set the Levites apart from the other men of Israel. The Levites will belong to me.

15. "Make the Levites pure. Give them to me as a wave offering. Then they must come to do their work at the Tent of Meeting.

16. They are the men of Israel who will be given to me completely. I have taken them to be my own. I have taken them in place of every son who is born first in his family in Israel.