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“Separate the Levites from the other Israelites. Make these Levites clean. This is what you should do to make them clean: Sprinkle the special water from the sin offering[a] on them. This water will make them clean. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.

“They must take a young bull and the grain offering that must be offered with it. This grain offering will be flour mixed with oil. Then take another young bull for a sin offering.

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  1. Numbers 8:7 water from the sin offering In this water were the ashes from the red cow that had been burned on the altar as a sin offering.

“Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.(A) To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing(B) on them; then have them shave their whole bodies(C) and wash their clothes.(D) And so they will purify themselves.(E) Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil;(F) then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.[a](G)

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  1. Numbers 8:8 Or purification offering; also in verse 12