Numbers 8:14-17

The Voice

¹⁴ In this way, you will show how the Levites are distinct from all other Israelites. They belong directly to Me.

¹⁵ After all of this, the purification and presentation as an uplifted offering, they will be ready to do congregation tent maintenance and work. ^16-17 Indeed, they are uniquely designated for Me among the Israelites. Those Levites substitute for the Israelites’ firstborn children and animals, which I am within My rights to demand since I killed all the Egyptian firstborn on My peoples’ behalf and so consecrated all Israelite firstborn as My own.