Numbers 8:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Consecration and Service of the Levites

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ “Take the Levites from among the people of Israel, and cleanse them. ⁷ And thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.