And on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had  ¹anointed it and sanctified it and all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed them and sanctified them,

The leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers' households (they were the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who had been numbered), presented their offering.

And they brought their offering before Jehovah:  ¹six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one; and they presented them before the tabernacle.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Take these from them that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to each according to his service.

And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon according to their service;

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they bore this upon their shoulder.

And the leaders presented  ¹offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed; that is, the leaders presented their offering before the altar.

And Jehovah said to Moses, They shall present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.

And he who presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

And his offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented.

He presented as his offering one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the children of Zebulun —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the children of Reuben —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children of Simeon —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the children of Gad —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the children of Ephraim —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, leader of the children of Manasseh —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, leader of the children of Benjamin —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the children of Dan —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, leader of the children of Asher —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the children of Naphtali —

His offering was one silver plate; its weight was one hundred thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;

One golden cup of ten shekels, full of incense;

One bull of the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

One male of the goats for a sin offering;

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden cups;

Each silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

The twelve golden cups, full of incense, weighing ten shekels each, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the cups was one hundred twenty shekels;

All the livestock for the burnt offering: twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old and their meal offering; and twelve males of the goats for a sin offering;

And all the livestock for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.

And when Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the expiation cover that was upon the Ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and  ¹he spoke to Him.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the  ¹seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand.

And Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold; from its base to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the  ¹pattern which Jehovah had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.

And thus you shall do to them to  ¹cleanse them: Sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them pass a razor over all their flesh and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.

Then let them take a bull of the herd and its meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and a second bull of the herd you shall take for a sin offering.

And you shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel.

And you shall present the Levites before Jehovah, and the children of Israel shall  ¹lay their hands upon the Levites.

And Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah as a  ¹wave offering from the children of Israel, that they may do the service of Jehovah.

And the Levites shall  ¹lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to Jehovah to make expiation for the Levites.

And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Jehovah.

Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

Then after this the Levites may go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. So you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

For they are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself instead of everyone who opens the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.

For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both human and animal. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make expiation for the children of Israel, that there may be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.

Thus did Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly of the children of Israel do to the Levites; according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel do to them.

And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes. Then Aaron offered them as a wave offering before Jehovah, and Aaron made expiation for them to cleanse them.

And after this the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons; as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

This is what applies to the Levites: From  ¹twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

And from the age of fifty years they shall  ¹retire from the service in the work and shall serve no more.

But they may minister to their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, but they themselves shall do no service. Thus you shall do with the Levites concerning their charges.

Now Jehovah had spoken to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the  ¹first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Let the children of Israel keep the  ¹passover at its appointed time.

On the fourteenth day of this month  ¹at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its  ²statutes and according to all its  ²ordinances you shall keep it.

Thus Moses told the children of Israel to keep the passover.

And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

But there were certain men who were unclean through contact with a dead person, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

And those men said to him, Although we are unclean through contact with a dead person, why must we be kept from presenting the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time among the children of Israel?

And Moses said to them, Stay here so I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Any one of you or your descendants who becomes unclean through contact with a dead person or is on a distant journey shall still keep the passover to Jehovah.

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

They shall not leave any of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to every statute of the passover they shall keep it.

But the  ¹man who is clean and is not on a journey yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present Jehovah's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

And if a stranger sojourns with you and keeps the passover to Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native born in the land.

And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the  ¹cloud covered the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony; and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning.

So it was always; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

And whenever the  ¹cloud was taken up from over the tent, then after that the children of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel encamped.

At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel set out, and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped; as long as the cloud settled upon the tabernacle, they remained encamped.

Even when the cloud extended its time over the tabernacle for many days, the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah and did not set out.

If sometimes the cloud was upon the tabernacle a few days, according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped; then at the commandment of Jehovah they set out.

If sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out; or if it remained a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up, they set out.

Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud extended its time over the tabernacle and settled above it, the children of Israel remained encamped and did not set out; but when it was taken up, they set out.

At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they set out. They kept the charge of Jehovah according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.