Numbers 8:15-17

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵ “So make the Levites pure. And present them as an offering. Then they may come to work at the Meeting Tent. ¹⁶ They will be given to me from the Israelites. I have taken them for myself. They are mine instead of the firstborn son of every Israelite woman. ¹⁷ Every firstborn male in Israel—man or animal—is mine. I killed all the firstborn in Egypt. So now I set them aside for myself.