Numbers 8:6

World English Bible (2000)

"Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 19:15 : 15 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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  • Num 8:7-11
    5 verses
    88%

    7You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

    8Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

    9You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

    10You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

    11and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

  • Num 8:13-15
    3 verses
    85%

    13You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

    14Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

    15"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Num 8:18-23
    6 verses
    83%

    18I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

    19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

    20Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

    21The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

    22After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

    23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    78%

    5and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

  • Lev 8:6
    78%

    6Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

  • Lev 15:31
    77%

    31"'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • Num 31:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

    25Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 14:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8"He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

    9It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

  • Lev 16:19
    76%

    19He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

  • Num 5:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2"Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

  • Num 18:6
    76%

    6I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Num 3:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    12"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

  • Num 3:6
    75%

    6"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

  • Lev 22:1
    75%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 15:1
    75%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 3:45
    75%

    45"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

    16The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

  • Exod 19:10
    75%

    10Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

  • Num 31:20
    75%

    20As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

  • Num 7:5
    74%

    5"Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."

  • Num 5:4
    74%

    4The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

  • Lev 14:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,

  • Num 3:41
    74%

    41You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel."

  • Ezek 44:26
    74%

    26After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

  • Lev 16:28
    74%

    28He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

  • Lev 8:1
    74%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 10:10
    74%

    10and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • Num 19:19
    74%

    19and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

  • Ezek 36:25
    74%

    25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

  • Num 4:1
    74%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Exod 19:14
    74%

    14Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

  • 2 Chr 30:17
    74%

    17For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

  • Exod 30:17
    73%

    17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,