< Numbers 8 >

1 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses saying.
Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
2 Speak to Aaron and you will say to him when lifting up you the lamps to [the] front of [the] face of the lampstand they will give light [the] seven the lamps.
Loquere Aaron, et dices ad eum: Cum posueris septem lucernas, candelabrum in australi parte erigatur. Hoc igitur præcipe ut lucernæ contra boream e regione respiciant ad mensam panum propositionis, contra eam partem, quam candelabrum respicit, lucere debebunt.
3 And he did so Aaron to [the] front of [the] face of the lampstand he lifted up lamps its just as he had commanded Yahweh Moses.
Fecitque Aaron, et imposuit lucernas super candelabrum, ut præceperat Dominus Moysi.
4 And this [was] [the] work of the lampstand hammered work gold to base its to blossom its [was] hammered work it like the appearance which he had shown Yahweh Moses so he made the lampstand.
Hæc autem erat factura candelabri, ex auro ductili, tam medius stipes, quam cuncta quæ ex utroque calamorum latere nascebantur: iuxta exemplum quod ostendit Dominus Moysi, ita operatus est candelabrum.
5 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses saying.
Et locutus est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
6 Take the Levites from among [the] people of Israel and you will purify them.
Tolle Levitas de medio filiorum Israel, et purificabis eos
7 And thus you will do to them to purify them spatter on them water of sin offering and they will cause to pass a razor over all body their and they will wash clothes their and they will purify themselves.
iuxta hunc ritum: Aspergantur aqua lustrationis, et radant omnes pilos carnis suæ. Cumque laverint vestimenta sua, et mundati fuerint,
8 And they will take a young bull a young one of cattle and grain offering its fine flour mixed with oil and a young bull second a young one of cattle you will take to a sin offering.
tollent bovem de armentis, et libamentum eius similam oleo conspersam: bovem autem alterum de armento tu accipies pro peccato:
9 And you will bring near the Levites before [the] tent of meeting and you will assemble all [the] congregation of [the] people of Israel.
et applicabis Levitas coram tabernaculo fœderis, convocata omni multitudine filiorum Israel.
10 And you will bring near the Levites before Yahweh and they will lay [the] people of Israel hands their on the Levites.
Cumque Levitæ fuerint coram Domino, ponent filii Israel manus suas super eos.
11 And he will wave Aaron the Levites a wave-offering before Yahweh from with [the] people of Israel and they will be to serve [the] service of Yahweh.
Et offeret Aaron Levitas, munus in conspectu Domini a filiis Israel, ut serviant in ministerio eius.
12 And the Levites they will lay hands their on [the] head of the young bulls and offer the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering to Yahweh to make atonement on the Levites.
Levitæ quoque ponent manus suas super capita boum, e quibus unum facies pro peccato, et alterum in holocaustum Domini, ut depreceris pro eis.
13 And you will make stand the Levites before Aaron and before sons his and you will wave them a wave-offering to Yahweh.
Statuesque Levitas in conspectu Aaron et filiorum eius, et consecrabis oblatos Domino,
14 And you will separate the Levites from among [the] people of Israel and they will belong to me the Levites.
ac separabis de medio filiorum Israel, ut sint mei.
15 And after thus they will go the Levites to serve [the] tent of meeting and you will purify them and you will wave them a wave-offering.
Et postea ingredientur tabernaculum fœderis, ut serviant mihi. Sicque purificabis et consecrabis eos in oblationem Domini: quoniam dono donati sunt mihi a filiis Israel.
16 For [are] assigned assigned they to me from among [the] people of Israel in place of [the] firstborn of every womb [the] firstborn of all from [the] people of Israel I have taken them for myself.
Pro primogenitis quæ aperiunt omnem vulvam in Israel, accepi eos.
17 For [belongs] to me every firstborn among [the] people of Israel among humankind and among the livestock on [the] day struck I every firstborn in [the] land of Egypt I set apart them for myself.
Mea sunt enim omnia primogenita filiorum Israel, tam ex hominibus quam ex iumentis. Ex die quo percussi omne primogenitum in Terra Ægypti, sanctificavi eos mihi:
18 And I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among [the] people of Israel.
et tuli Levitas pro cunctis primogenitis filiorum Israel:
19 And I have given! the Levites given [things] - to Aaron and to sons his from among [the] people of Israel to serve [the] service of [the] people of Israel in [the] tent of meeting and to make atonement on [the] people of Israel and not it will be among [the] people of Israel a plague when draw near [the] people of Israel to the holy place.
tradidique eos dono Aaron et filiis eius de medio populi, ut serviant mihi pro Israel in tabernaculo fœderis, et orent pro eis ne sit in populo plaga, si ausi fuerint accedere ad Sanctuarium.
20 And he did Moses and Aaron and all [the] congregation of [the] people of Israel to the Levites according to all that he had commanded Yahweh Moses of the Levites so they did to them [the] people of Israel.
Feceruntque Moyses et Aaron et omnis multitudo filiorum Israel super Levitas quæ præceperat Dominus Moysi:
21 And they purified themselves the Levites and they washed clothes their and he waved Aaron them a wave-offering before Yahweh and he made atonement on them Aaron to purify them.
purificatique sunt, et laverunt vestimenta sua. Elevavitque eos Aaron in conspectu Domini, et oravit pro eis,
22 And after thus they went the Levites to serve service their in [the] tent of meeting before Aaron and before sons his just as he had commanded Yahweh Moses on the Levites so they did to them.
ut purificati ingrederentur ad officia sua in tabernaculum fœderis coram Aaron et filiis eius. Sicut præceperat Dominus Moysi de Levitis, ita factum est.
23 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses saying.
Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
24 This [is that] which [is] to the Levites from a son of five and twenty year[s] and up-wards he will go to serve service in [the] service of [the] tent of meeting.
Hæc est lex Levitarum, A viginti quinque annis et supra, ingredientur ut ministrent in tabernaculo fœderis.
25 And from a son of fifty year[s] he will turn back from [the] service of the service and not he will serve again.
Cumque quinquagesimum annum ætatis impleverint, servire cessabunt:
26 And he will serve brothers his in [the] tent of meeting by keeping a duty and service not he will serve thus you will do to the Levites in duties their.
eruntque ministri fratrum suorum in tabernaculo fœderis, ut custodiant quæ sibi fuerunt commendata, opera autem ipsa non faciant. Sic dispones Levitis in custodiis suis.

< Numbers 8 >