one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin offering;
and for the sacrifice of well-being, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.
84 This was the dedication offering for the altar, at the time when it was anointed, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
each silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels and each basin seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being one hundred twenty shekels;
all the livestock for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;
and all the livestock for the sacrifice of well-being twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar, after it was anointed.
89 When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD,[12 (#ulink_2811192c-fae4-5d81-a3d2-15158283124d)] he would hear the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat[13 (#ulink_509bf170-85a9-54ef-b320-b3b3fe28780d)] that was on the ark of the covenant[14 (#ulink_be1b479f-1a71-5b60-96b7-4db4298052c4)] from between the two cherubim; thus it spoke to him.
8 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron and say to him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.
Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Now this was how the lampstand was made, out of hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Take the Levites from among the Israelites and cleanse them.
Thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification on them, have them shave their whole body with a razor and wash their clothes, and so cleanse themselves.
Then let them take a young bull and its grain offering of choice flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull for a sin offering.
You shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole congregation of the Israelites.
When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the Israelites shall lay their hands on the Levites,
and Aaron shall present the Levites before the LORD as an elevation offering from the Israelites, that they may do the service of the LORD.
The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and he shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
Then you shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and you shall present them as an elevation offering to the LORD.
14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the other Israelites, and the Levites shall be mine.
Thereafter the Levites may go in to do service at the tent of meeting, once you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevation offering.
For they are unreservedly given to me from among the Israelites; I have taken them for myself, in place of all that open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites.
For all the firstborn among the Israelites are mine, both human and animal. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,
but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.
Moreover, I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the service for the Israelites at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, in order that there may be no plague among the Israelites for coming too close to the sanctuary.
20 Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the Israelites did with the Levites accordingly; the Israelites did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning them.
The Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them as an elevation offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Thereafter the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting in attendance on Aaron and his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did with them.
23 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall begin to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting;
and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from the duty of the service and serve no more.
They may assist their brothers in the tent of meeting in carrying out their duties, but they shall perform no service. Thus you shall do with the Levites in assigning their duties.
9 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Let the Israelites keep the passover at its appointed time.
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight,[15 (#ulink_990a8ce3-bc51-56f3-abb4-214cd69e4ebf)] you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its regulations you shall keep it.
So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the passover.
They kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight,[16 (#ulink_997c61b3-5825-54d2-ab02-c9096c9b9177)] in the wilderness of Sinai. Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.
Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,
and said to him, “Although we are unclean through touching a corpse, why must we be kept from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”
Moses spoke to them, “Wait, so that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”
9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to the Israelites, saying: Anyone of you or your descendants who is unclean through touching a corpse, or is away on a journey, shall still keep the passover to the LORD.
In the second month on the fourteenth day, at twilight,[16 (#ulink_997c61b3-5825-54d2-ab02-c9096c9b9177)] they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it.
But anyone who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet refrains from keeping the passover, shall be cut off from the people for not presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time; such a one shall bear the consequences for the sin.
Any alien residing among you who wishes to keep the passover to the LORD shall do so according to the statute of the passover and according to its regulation; you shall have one statute for both the resident alien and the native.
15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant;[17 (#ulink_0e15dcef-6057-5ee9-8a5d-c5c1c0b19df3)] and from evening until morning it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of fire.
