Bible verse
You are to present the Levites before the LORD and have the Israelites lay their hands upon them.
Numbers 8:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 8.
6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.
7 This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
8 Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
9 Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel.
10 You are to present the Levites before the LORD and have the Israelites lay their hands upon them.
11 Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.
12 And the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering.
14 In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.
KJV
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
ASV
and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:
ERV
and thou shalt present the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:
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