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14 “And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites,[a] and the Levites will be for me. 15 And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer[b] them as a wave offering. 16 For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites.[c] I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:14 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 8:15 Literally “Aaron will wave”
  3. Numbers 8:16 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Numbers 8:16 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

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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