2. ‘Speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.” ’
3. Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forwards on the lampstand, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
4. This is how the lampstand was made: it was made of hammered gold – from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.
5. The Lord said to Moses:
6. ‘Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.
7. To purify them, do this: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves.
8. Make them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
9. Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.