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What does Numbers 8:13 mean?
"You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh."
— Numbers 8:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
and 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.
“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
“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.
For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
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