Numbers 8:6
“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 19:15 : 15 He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.”
- Isa 52:11 : 11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the LORD’s holy items!
- 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
- Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
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- Num 8:7-115 verses88%
7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
8Then 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.
9You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.
10Then you are to bring the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;
11and 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.
- Num 8:13-153 verses85%
13You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
14And 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.
- Num 8:18-236 verses83%
18So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.
19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”
20So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.
21The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.
22After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.
23The Work of the Levites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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5He said to them:“Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
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6Clothing Aaron So Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water.
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31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.
- Num 31:24-252 verses77%
24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”
25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Lev 14:8-92 verses77%
8The Seven Days of Purification“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.
9When the seventh day comes he must shave all his hair– his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair– and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean.
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19Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.
- Num 5:1-22 verses76%
1Separation of the Unclean Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
2“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.
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6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.
- Num 3:11-122 verses76%
11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
12“Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
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6“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
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1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:
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1Male Bodily Discharges The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the LORD.
- 2 Chr 29:15-162 verses75%
15They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the LORD’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the LORD.
16The priests then entered the LORD’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the LORD’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.
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10The LORD said to Moses,“Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes
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20You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goat’s hair, and everything made of wood.”
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5“Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.”
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4So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the LORD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.
- Lev 14:1-22 verses74%
1Purification of Diseased Skin Infections The LORD spoke to Moses:
2“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.
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41And take the Levites for me– I am the LORD– instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”
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26After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.
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28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
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1Ordination of the Priests Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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10as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
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19And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.
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25I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
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1The Service of the Kohathites Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
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17Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the LORD.
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17The Bronze Laver The LORD spoke to Moses: