民数记 8
1 耶和华晓谕摩西说：
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “你告诉亚伦说：点灯的时候，七盏灯都要向灯台前面发光。”
Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
3 亚伦便这样行。他点灯台上的灯，使灯向前发光，是照耶和华所吩咐摩西的。
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps of it over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
4 这灯台的做法是用金子锤出来的，连座带花都是锤出来的。摩西制造灯台，是照耶和华所指示的样式。
And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, to its shaft, to the flowers of it, [was] beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
5 耶和华晓谕摩西说：
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6 “你从以色列人中选出利未人来，洁净他们。
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
7 洁净他们当这样行：用除罪水弹在他们身上，又叫他们用剃头刀刮全身，洗衣服，洁净自己。
And thus shalt thou do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and [so] make themselves clean.
8 然后叫他们取一只公牛犊，并同献的素祭，就是调油的细面；你要另取一只公牛犊作赎罪祭。
Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering, [even] fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering.
9 将利未人奉到会幕前，招聚以色列全会众。
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt convene the whole assembly of the children of Israel:
10 将利未人奉到耶和华面前，以色列人要按手在他们头上。
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
11 亚伦也将他们奉到耶和华面前，为以色列人当作摇祭，使他们好办耶和华的事。
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
12 利未人要按手在那两只牛的头上；你要将一只作赎罪祭，一只作燔祭，献给耶和华，为利未人赎罪。
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering, to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 你也要使利未人站在亚伦和他儿子面前，将他们当作摇祭奉给耶和华。
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering to the LORD.
14 “这样，你从以色列人中将利未人分别出来，利未人便要归我。
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
15 此后利未人要进去办会幕的事，你要洁净他们，将他们当作摇祭奉上；
And after that shall the Levites go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering.
16 因为他们是从以色列人中全然给我的，我拣选他们归我，是代替以色列人中一切头生的。
For they [are] wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, [even instead of] the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to me.
17 以色列人中一切头生的，连人带牲畜，都是我的。我在埃及地击杀一切头生的那天，将他们分别为圣归我。
For all the first born of the children of Israel [are] mine, [both] man and beast: on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
18 我拣选利未人代替以色列人中一切头生的。
And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel.
19 我从以色列人中将利未人当作赏赐给亚伦和他的儿子，在会幕中办以色列人的事，又为以色列人赎罪，免得他们挨近圣所，有灾殃临到他们中间。”
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 tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there may be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh to the sanctuary.
20 摩西、亚伦，并以色列全会众便向利未人如此行。凡耶和华指着利未人所吩咐摩西的，以色列人就向他们这样行。
And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel to them.
21 于是利未人洁净自己，除了罪，洗了衣服；亚伦将他们当作摇祭奉到耶和华面前，又为他们赎罪，洁净他们。
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.
22 然后利未人进去，在亚伦和他儿子面前，在会幕中办事。耶和华指着利未人怎样吩咐摩西，以色列人就怎样向他们行了。
And after that went the Levites in to perform their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they to them.
23 耶和华晓谕摩西说：
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “利未人是这样：从二十五岁以外，他们要前来任职，办会幕的事。
This [is it] that [belongeth] to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
25 到了五十岁要停工退任，不再办事，
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service [of it], and shall serve no more:
26 只要在会幕里，和他们的弟兄一同伺候，谨守所吩咐的，不再办事了。至于所吩咐利未人的，你要这样向他们行。”
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do to the Levites concerning their charge.
