Numbers 8:15-17

Lexham English Bible

¹⁵ And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer^[a] them as a wave offering. ¹⁶ For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites.^[b] I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites.^{[c] 17} For every firstborn among the Israelites^[d] is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,