Numbers 8:1-6 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up and light the lamps, the seven lamps will shine in front of the lampstand.’”

3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

4 Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

5 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

6 “Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.