Numbers 8:15-17
The Voice
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.
Numbers 8:15-17
New International Version
15 “After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering,(A) they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting.(B) 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,(C) the first male offspring(D) from every Israelite woman. 17 Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal,(E) is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.(F)
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