^{14 Ref} So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

^{15 Ref} After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

^{16 Ref} For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.