Liber Numeri 8
1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
2 Loquere Aaron, et dices ad eum: Cum posueris septem lucernas, candelabrum in australi parte erigatur. Hoc igitur praecipe ut lucernae contra borean e regione respiciant ad mensam panum propositionis, contra eam partem, quam candelabrum respicit, lucere debebunt.
Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, then shall the seven lamps give light toward the body of the candlestick.
3 Fecitque Aaron, et imposuit lucernas super candelabrum, ut praeceperat Dominus Moysi.
And Aaron did so; toward the body of the candlestick did he light its lamps; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
4 Haec autem erat factura candelabri, ex auro ductili, tam medius stipes, quam cuncta quae ex utroque calamorum latere nascebantur: iuxta exemplum quod ostendit Dominus Moysi, ita operatus est candelabrum.
And this was the workmanship of the candlestick: It was of beaten gold, from the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so made he the candlestick.
5 Et locutus est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
6 Tolle Levitas de medio filiorum Israel, et purificabis eos
Take the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 iuxta hunc ritum: Aspergantur aqua lustrationis, et radant omnes pilos carnis suae. Cumque laverint vestimenta sua, et mundati fuerint,
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle upon them water of purification, after they have let the razor pass over all their flesh, and then let them wash their clothes, and so shall they be clean.
8 tollent bovem de armentis, et libamentum eius similam oleo conspersam: bovem autem alterum de armento tu accipies pro peccato:
And they shall take a young bullock with his meat-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering.
9 et applicabis Levitas coram tabernaculo foederis, convocata omni multitudine filiorum Israel.
And thou shalt bring near the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt assemble together the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
10 Cumque Levitae fuerint coram Domino, ponent filii Israel manus suas super eos.
And when thou hast brought near the Levites before the Lord, then shall the children of Israel lay their hands upon the Levites:
11 et offeret Aaron Levitas, munus in conspectu Domini a filiis Israel, ut serviant in ministerio eius.
And Aaron shall make with the Levites a waving before the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may be ready to execute the service of the Lord.
12 Levitae quoque ponent manus suas super capita boum, e quibus unum facies pro peccato, et alterum in holocaustum Domini, ut depreceris pro eis.
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt prepare the one as a sin-offering, and the other as a burnt-offering, unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 Statuesque Levitas in conspectu Aaron et filiorum eius, et consecrabis oblatos Domino,
And thou shalt place the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and make with them a waving before the Lord.
14 ac separabis de medio filiorum Israel, ut sint mei.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
15 et postea ingrediantur tabernaculum foederis, ut serviant mihi. Sicque purificabis et consecrabis eos in oblationem Domini: quoniam dono donati sunt mihi a filiis Israel.
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: after thou shalt have cleansed them, and made with them a waving.
16 Pro primogenitis quae aperiunt omnem vulvam in Israel, accepi eos.
For they are wholly given unto me from the midst of the children of Israel: instead of every one that openeth the womb, of every first-born of the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 Mea sunt enim omnia primogenita filiorum Israel, tam ex hominibus quam ex iumentis. Ex die quo percussi omne primogenitum in Terra Aegypti, sanctificavi eos mihi:
For mine are all the first-born of the children of Israel, both of man and beast: on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt did I sanctify them unto myself.
18 et tuli Levitas pro cunctis primogenitis filiorum Israel:
And I have taken the Levites, instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.
19 tradidique eos dono Aaron et filiis eius de medio populi, ut serviant mihi pro Israel in tabernaculo foederis, et orent pro eis ne sit in populo plaga, si ausi fuerint accedere ad Sanctuarium.
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
20 Feceruntque Moyses et Aaron et omnis multitudo filiorum Israel super Levitas quae praeceperat Dominus Moysi:
And so did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites: according unto all that the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
21 purificatique sunt, et laverunt vestimenta sua. Elevavitque eos Aaron in conspectu Domini, et oravit pro eis,
And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron made with them a waving before the Lord: and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 ut purificati ingrederentur ad officia sua in tabernaculum foederis coram Aaron et filiis eius. Sicut praeceperat Dominus Moysi de Levitis, ita factum est.
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
23 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
24 Haec est lex Levitarum, A viginti quinque annis et supra, ingredientur ut ministrent in tabernaculo foederis.
This shall be the rule for the Levites: From twenty and five years old and upward shall he go into the ranks to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation;
25 Cumque quinquagesimum annum aetatis impleverint, servire cessabunt:
And from the age of fifty years shall he go out of the ranks of the service, and he shall serve no more;
26 eruntque ministri fratrum suorum in tabernaculo foederis, ut custodiant quae sibi fuerunt commendata, opera autem ipsa non faciant. Sic dispones Levitis in custodiis suis.
But he shall wait on his brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, but the service shall he not perform; thus shalt thou do unto the Levites in the discharge of their office.
