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10 who have been appointed to be priests. Anyone else who tries to perform the duties of a priest must be put to death.

11-13 (A) Moses, I have chosen these Levites from all Israel, and they will belong to me in a special way. When I killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, I decided that the first-born sons in every Israelite family and the first-born males of their flocks and herds would be mine.[a] But now I accept these Levites in place of the first-born sons of the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.11-13 When I killed … mine: See Exodus 13.1,2, 11-16.

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