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Numbers 8:18
and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:
Numbers 8:18 · Young's Literal Translation
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Numbers 8:18 in other translations
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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In context
15 and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them--a wave-offering.
16 `For they are certainly given to Me out of the midst of the sons of Israel, instead of him who openeth any womb--the first-born of all--from the sons of Israel I have taken them to Myself;
17 for Mine is every first-born among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; in the day of my smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself;
18 and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:
19 `And I give the Levites gifts to Aaron and to his sons, from the midst of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, and there is no plague among the sons of Israel in the sons of Israel's drawing nigh unto the sanctuary.'
20 And Moses doth--Aaron also, and all the company of the sons of Israel--to the Levites according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so have the sons of Israel done to them.
21 And the Levites cleanse themselves, and wash their garments, and Aaron waveth them a wave-offering before Jehovah, and Aaron maketh atonement for them to cleanse them,
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