Numbers 8:5-7

New International Version - UK

The setting apart of the Levites

⁵ The Lord said to Moses: ⁶ ‘Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. ⁷ To purify them, do this: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves.