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Numbers 7
⁸⁸ Twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty one-year-old male lambs were donated for the peace offerings. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
⁸⁹ Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The LORD spoke to him from there.
Numbers 8
¹ The LORD said to Moses,
² “Give Aaron the following instructions: When you set up the seven lamps in the lampstand, place them so their light shines forward in front of the lampstand.”
³ So Aaron did this. He set up the seven lamps so they reflected their light forward, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
⁴ The entire lampstand, from its base to its decorative blossoms, was made of beaten gold. It was built according to the exact design the LORD had shown Moses.
⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses,
⁶ “Now set the Levites apart from the rest of the people of Israel and make them ceremonially clean.
⁷ Do this by sprinkling them with the water of purification, and have them shave their entire body and wash their clothing. Then they will be ceremonially clean.
⁸ Have them bring a young bull and a grain offering of choice flour moistened with olive oil, along with a second young bull for a sin offering.
⁹ Then assemble the whole community of Israel, and present the Levites at the entrance of the Tabernacle.