Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Numbers 8:5
Surrounding context
8:4 Now this workmanship of the lampstand was hammered gold; from its shaft to its flowers it was hammered work. According to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
8:5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
8:6 "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them ceremonially.