Numbers 8:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Thereafter the Levites may go in to do service at the tent of meeting, once you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevation offering.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the Tent of Meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The Levites will enter to serve the meeting tent, after you have cleansed them and presented them as an uplifted offering.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And after this, they shall enter the tabernacle of the covenant, in order to serve me. And so shall you purify and consecrate them as an oblation to the Lord. For they were given to me as a gift from the sons of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.

Numbers 8:15 Cross References

Exodus 29:24

and you shall place all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons and raise them as an elevation offering before the Lord.

Numbers 3:12

“I hereby take the Levites from among the Israelites as substitutes for all the firstborn that open the womb among the Israelites. The Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 8:11

and Aaron shall present the Levites before the Lord as an elevation offering from the Israelites, that they may do the service of the Lord.

Numbers 8:13

Then you shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and you shall present them as an elevation offering to the Lord.

Numbers 8:16

For they are unreservedly given to me from among the Israelites; I have taken them for myself, in place of all that open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites.