^{6 Ref} Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

^{7 Ref} And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

^{8 Ref} Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering.

^{9 Ref} And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:

^{10 Ref} And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them:

^{11 Ref} And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.