Numbers 3:9
New International Version
9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons;(A) they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.[a]
Footnotes
- Numbers 3:9 Most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text; some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also 8:16) to me
Numbers 3:12
New International Version
12 “I have taken the Levites(A) from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring(B) of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine,(C)
Numbers 3:13
New International Version
13 for all the firstborn are mine.(A) When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.”(B)
Numbers 8:16-19
New International Version
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,(A) the first male offspring(B) from every Israelite woman. 17 Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal,(C) is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.(D) 18 And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.(E) 19 From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons(F) to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites(G) and to make atonement for them(H) so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.”
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