Numbers 8:15
New International Version
“After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting.

New Living Translation
After this, they may go into the Tabernacle to do their work, because you have purified them and presented them as a special offering.

English Standard Version
And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.

Berean Standard Bible
After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

King James Bible
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

New King James Version
After that the Levites shall go in to service the tabernacle of meeting. So you shall cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

New American Standard Bible
Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

NASB 1995
“Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

NASB 1977
“Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

Legacy Standard Bible
Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

Amplified Bible
Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), but you shall cleanse them [first] and present them as a wave offering;

Christian Standard Bible
After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.

American Standard Version
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And after this the Levites shall enter and they shall serve in the Time Tabernacle; and purify them and consecrate them as a consecration before LORD JEHOVAH.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
After they have been made acceptable and have been dedicated, they will be allowed to work at my sacred tent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave offering.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Once you have made them clean and presented them as an offering, the Levites may come and do their work at the tent of meeting.

Good News Translation
After you have purified and dedicated the Levites, they will be qualified to work in the Tent.

International Standard Version
"After this, the descendants of Levi are to come to serve at the appointed place of meeting, after you have purified them and presented them as wave offerings,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.

Literal Standard Version
and afterward the Levites come in to serve the Tent of Meeting, and you have cleansed them, and have waved them [as] a wave-offering.

Majority Standard Bible
After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

New American Bible
Only then shall the Levites enter upon their service in the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevated offering.

NET Bible
"After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

New Revised Standard Version
Thereafter the Levites may go in to do service at the tent of meeting, once you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevation offering.

New Heart English Bible
"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

Young's Literal Translation
and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Cleansing the Levites
14In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me. 15After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting. 16For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.…

Cross References
Exodus 29:24
Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

Numbers 8:16
For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

go in

Numbers 8:11
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.

Numbers 3:23-37
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward…

Numbers 4:3-32
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation…

and offer

Numbers 8:11,13
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…

Numbers 3:12
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

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Numbers 8
1. How the lamps are to be lighted
5. The consecration of the Levites
23. The age and time of their service














(15) And after that shall the Levites go in . . . --i.e., into the court of the Tabernacle to keep watch there, and to assist the priests at the altar of burnt-offering, and to take down and set up the Tabernacle as occasion might require.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
After
וְאַֽחֲרֵי־ (wə·’a·ḥă·rê-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

you have cleansed
וְטִֽהַרְתָּ֣ (wə·ṭi·har·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure

them
אֹתָ֔ם (’ō·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and presented
וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥ (wə·hê·nap̄·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5130: To move to and fro, wave, sprinkle

them as a wave offering,
תְּנוּפָֽה׃ (tə·nū·p̄āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8573: A brandishing, tumult, the official undulation of sacrificial offerings

[they]
הַלְוִיִּ֔ם (hal·wî·yim)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

may come
יָבֹ֣אוּ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to serve
לַעֲבֹ֖ד (la·‘ă·ḇōḏ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave

at the Tent
אֹ֣הֶל (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 168: A tent

of Meeting.
מוֹעֵ֑ד (mō·w·‘êḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting


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