FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – B’HA’ALOTHKA:

And YHWH spoke to Mosheh, saying, “Take the Lewites from among the children of Yisra’el, and you shall cleanse them, and do this to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of sin offering on them, and they shall shave all their body, and shall wash their garments, and cleanse themselves, and shall take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, while you take another young bull as a sin offering. And you shall bring the Lewites before the Tent of Appointment, and you shall assemble all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el. And you shall bring the Lewites before YHWH, and the children of Yisra’el shall lay their hands on the Lewites, and Aharon shall wave the Lewites before YHWH, a wave offering from the children of Yisra’el – so shall they be for doing the service of YHWH. And the Lewites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls. And one shall be prepared as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering to YHWH, to make atonement for the Lewites. And you shall have the Lewites stand before Aharon and his sons, and then wave them, a wave offering to YHWH. Thus you shall separate the Lewites from among the children of Yisra’el, and the Lewites shall be Mine. Then after that the Lewites shall go in to do service in the Tent of Appointment, when you have cleansed them and waved them as a wave offering. For they are given ones, given to Me from among the children of Yisra’el. I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the first-born of all the children of Yisra’el. For all the first-born among the children of Yisra’el are Mine, both man and beast. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim I set them apart unto Myself. And I have taken the Lewites instead of all the first-born of the children of Yisra’el. And I have given the Lewites as a gift to Aharon and his sons from among the children of Yisra’el, to do the service of the children of Yisra’el in the Tent of Appointment, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra’el, that there be no plague among the children of Yisra’el when the children of Yisra’el come near the set-apart place.”

Thus Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el did to the Lewites according to all that YHWH commanded Mosheh concerning the Lewites, so the children of Yisra’el did to them.