1   And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

2   Speake to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seuen lampes, let the candlesticke be sette vp in the south part ouer against the north, toward the table of the breades of proposition, ouer against that part toward which the candlesticke looketh, shal they shine.

3   And Aaron did so, and he put the lampes vpon the candlesticke, as our Lord had c&obar;manded Moyses.

4   this was the making of the candlesticke, of beaten gold, as wel the middle shaft, as al thinges that arose out of both sides of the branches: according to the example which our Lord shewed to Moyses, so wrought he the candlesticke.

5   And our Lord spake to Moyses saying:

6   Take the Leuites out of the middes of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purifie them,

7   according to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with ^note the water of lustration, & shaue al the haires of their flesh. And when they haue washed their garmentes, and are cleansed,

8   they shal take an oxe out of the heardes, and his libament flowre tempered with oyle: and an other oxe out of the heard thou shalt take for sinne:

9   and thou shalt bring the Leuites before the tabernacle of couenant, calling together al the multitude of the children of Israel.

10   And when the Leuites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shal put their handes vpon them.

11   and Aaron shal offer the Leuites, a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serue in his ministerie.

12   The Leuites also shal put their handes vpon the heades of the oxen, of the which thou shalt make one for sinne, and the other for holocauste of the Lord, to pray for them.

13   And thou shalt sette

Ordination of the Leuites. the Leuites in the sight of Aaron and of his sonnes, and being offered shal consecrate them to the Lord,

14   and shal separate them from the middes of the children of Israel, to be mine.

15   And afterward they shal enter into the tabernacle of couenant, to serue me. And thou shalt so purifie and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: because they were geuen me for a gift of the children of Israel.

16   For the first borne that open euerie matrice in Israel, I haue taken them.

17   For mine are al the first borne of the children of Israel, as wel of men as of beastes. From the day that I smote euerie first borne in the Land of Ægypt, haue I sanctified them to me:

18   and I haue taken the Leuites for al the first borne of the children of Israel:

19   and haue deliuered them for a gift to Aaron and his sonnes out of the middes of the people, to serue me for Israel in the tabernacle of couenant, and to pray for them that there be no plague among the people, if they should presume to approch vnto my Sanctuarie.

20   And Moyses and Aaron and al the multitude of the children of Israel did concerning the Leuites the thinges that our Lord had commanded Moyses:

21   and they were purified, and washed their garmentes. And Aaron ^note eleuated them in the sight of our Lord, and prayed for them,

22   that being purified they might enter to their offices into the tabernacle of couenant before Aaron & his sonnes. Euen as our Lord had c&obar;manded Moyses touching the Leuites, so was it done.

23   And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

24   This is the law of the Leuites, From twentie fiue yeares and vpward, they shal enter in to minister in the tabernacle of couenant.

25   And when they shal haue accomplisheth the fiftith yeare of their age, they shal cease to serue:

26   and shal be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of couenant, to keepe the thinges that are c&obar;mended to them, but not to do the verie workes. Thus shalt thou dispose to the Leuites in their custodies.

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