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14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense]. 15 Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), but you shall cleanse them [first] and present them as a wave offering; 16 for they are wholly given to Me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for Myself instead of [a]all who are born first, the firstborn of all the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:16 Lit the first issue of every womb.

14 In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.(A)

15 “After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering,(B) they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting.(C) 16 They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn,(D) the first male offspring(E) from every Israelite woman.

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