¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, ¹² “I myself receive the Levites from the midst of the Israelites^[a] in the place of all the firstborn of the offspring of the womb from the Israelites.^[b] The Levites will be mine ¹³ because all the firstborn are mine; on the day of my killing all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both humankind and animal;^[c] they will be mine. I am Yahweh.”