Numbers 8:13-19 ▼

13 And you shall stand the Levites before the face of Aaron and his sons, and wave them as a wave offering to YHWH.

14 And you shall separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be unto Me.

15 And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the Tent of Meeting. And you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

16 For they are wholly given to Me from the midst of the sons of Israel. Instead of him who opens every womb—the firstborn of all the sons of Israel—I have taken them for Myself.

17 For Mine are all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, the man and the beast. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to Myself.

18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.

19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the sons of Israel, to do the work of the sons of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement upon the sons of Israel, and there will be no plague among the sons of Israel at the coming of the sons of Israel to the sanctuary.”