Numbers 8:21 - Easy To Read Version

²¹ The Levites washed themselves and their clothes. Then Aaron gave them to the Lord like wave offerings. Aaron gave the offerings that covered their sins and made them pure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ The Levites cleansed and purified themselves and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the Lord and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

Common English Bible

²¹ The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Aaron presented them as an uplifted offering in the LORD’s presence, and he sought reconciliation for them in order to cleanse them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And they were purified, and they washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and he prayed for them,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them,

Numbers 8:21 Cross References

Exodus 19:10

And the Lord said to Moses, “Today and tomorrow you must prepare the people for a special meeting. The people must wash their clothes

Leviticus 14:11

The priest must bring that person and his sacrifices before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. [199] (This must be the same priest who announces that the person is clean. [200])

Numbers 19:12

He must wash himself with the special water on the third day and again on the seventh day. If he does not do this, then he will remain unclean.

Numbers 19:19

“Then a clean [262] person must sprinkle this water on the unclean [263] person on the third day and again on the seventh day. On the seventh day, that person becomes clean. He must wash his clothes in water. He will become clean in the evening.

Numbers 3:12

“{I told you that every family of Israel must give their firstborn [31] son to me}—but now I am choosing the Levites to serve me. They will be mine. So all the other people of Israel will not have to give their firstborn sons to me.

Numbers 8:15

“So make the Levite people pure. [130] And give them to the Lord. They will be like a wave offering. After you do this they can come and do their work at the Meeting Tent. [131]

Numbers 8:20

So Moses, Aaron, and all the people of Israel obeyed the Lord. They did with the Levite people everything that the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:22

After that, the Levite people came to the Meeting Tent [133] to do their work. Aaron and his sons watched them. They were responsible for the work of the Levite people. Aaron and his sons did the things that the Lord told Moses.

Numbers 8:7

This is what you should do to make them pure. Sprinkle the special water from the sin offering [126] on them. This water will make them pure. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.