‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.
Numbers 8:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to me. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense]. American Standard Version (1901) Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine. Common English Bible You will separate the Levites from the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine. Catholic Public Domain Version and you shall separate them from the midst of the sons of Israel, so that they may be for me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine. |
‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.
Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the Lord to work at the tent of meeting.
‘See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to me,
‘Take the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of their cattle. The Levites belong to me; I am the Lord.
Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been assigned exclusively to him from the Israelites.
‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the Lord,
‘You are to make the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and you are to present them before the Lord as a presentation offering.
For every firstborn among the Israelites is mine, both man and animal. I consecrated them to myself on the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt.
Paul, a ser?vant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle , and set apart for the gospel of God #– #
But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased
‘At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is today.
For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.