Numbers 8
1 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 to speak: speak to(wards) Aaron and to say to(wards) him in/on/with to ascend: establish you [obj] [the] lamp to(wards) opposite face: before [the] lampstand to light seven [the] lamp
“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
3 and to make: do so Aaron to(wards) opposite face: before [the] lampstand to ascend: establish lamp her like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses
Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the LORD commanded Moses.
4 and this deed: work [the] lampstand beating gold till thigh her till flower her beating he/she/it like/as appearance which to see: see LORD [obj] Moses so to make [obj] [the] lampstand
This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses.
5 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6 to take: take [obj] [the] Levi from midst son: descendant/people Israel and be pure [obj] them
“Take the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 and thus to make: do to/for them to/for be pure them to sprinkle upon them water sin: punishment and to pass razor upon all flesh their and to wash garment their and be pure
You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
8 and to take: take bullock son: young animal cattle and offering his fine flour to mix in/on/with oil and bullock second son: young animal cattle to take: take to/for sin: sin offering
Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
9 and to present: bring [obj] [the] Levi to/for face: before tent meeting and to gather [obj] all congregation son: descendant/people Israel
You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
10 and to present: bring [obj] [the] Levi to/for face: before LORD and to support son: descendant/people Israel [obj] hand their upon [the] Levi
You shall present the Levites before the LORD. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
11 and to wave Aaron [obj] [the] Levi wave offering to/for face: before LORD from with son: descendant/people Israel and to be to/for to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry LORD
and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.
12 and [the] Levi to support [obj] hand their upon head [the] bullock and to make: offer [obj] [the] one sin: sin offering and [obj] [the] one burnt offering to/for LORD to/for to atone upon [the] Levi
“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
13 and to stand: stand [obj] [the] Levi to/for face: before Aaron and to/for face: before son: child his and to wave [obj] them wave offering to/for LORD
You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
14 and to separate [obj] [the] Levi from midst son: descendant/people Israel and to be to/for me [the] Levi
Thus you shall separate the Levites from amongst the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
15 and after so to come (in): come [the] Levi to/for to serve: minister [obj] tent meeting and be pure [obj] them and to wave [obj] them wave offering
“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
16 for to give: give to give: give they(masc.) to/for me from midst son: descendant/people Israel underneath: instead firstborn all womb firstborn all from son: descendant/people Israel to take: take [obj] them to/for me
For they are wholly given to me from amongst the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
17 for to/for me all firstborn in/on/with son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with man and in/on/with animal in/on/with day to smite I all firstborn in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt to consecrate: consecate [obj] them to/for me
For all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
18 and to take: take [obj] [the] Levi underneath: instead all firstborn in/on/with son: descendant/people Israel
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel.
19 and to give: give [emph?] [obj] [the] Levi to give: give to/for Aaron and to/for son: child his from midst son: descendant/people Israel to/for to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with tent meeting and to/for to atone upon son: descendant/people Israel and not to be in/on/with son: descendant/people Israel plague in/on/with to approach: approach son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) [the] holiness
I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from amongst the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague amongst the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”
20 and to make: do Moses and Aaron and all congregation son: descendant/people Israel to/for Levi like/as all which to command LORD [obj] Moses to/for Levi so to make: do to/for them son: descendant/people Israel
Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
21 and to sin [the] Levi and to wash garment their and to wave Aaron [obj] them wave offering to/for face: before LORD and to atone upon them Aaron to/for be pure them
The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 and after so to come (in): come [the] Levi to/for to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry their in/on/with tent meeting to/for face: before Aaron and to/for face: before son: child his like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses upon [the] Levi so to make: do to/for them
After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
23 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24 this which to/for Levi from son: aged five and twenty year and above [to] to come (in): come to/for to serve army: duty in/on/with service: ministry tent meeting
“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
25 and from son: aged fifty year to return: again from army: duty [the] service: ministry and not to serve: minister still
and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
26 and to minister [obj] brother: male-relative his in/on/with tent meeting to/for to keep: guard charge and service: ministry not to serve: minister thus to make: do to/for Levi in/on/with charge their
but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”
