Bamidbar 8:4-6

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁴ And the Menorah was made thus of hammered zahav, from its base unto its flower was it hammered out; according unto the mar’eh (pattern) which Hashem had shown Moshe, so he made the Menorah.

⁵ And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

⁶ Take the Levi’im from among the Bnei Yisroel, and make them tahor.