Numbers 8:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ For they are unreservedly given to me from among the Israelites; I have taken them for myself, in place of all that open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For they are wholly given to Me from among the Israelites; instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites, I have taken the Levites for Myself.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They are given over to me from the Israelites in place of all the newborn, the oldest of all the Israelites. I take them for myself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I have accepted them in place of the firstborn which open every womb in Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb in Israel.

Numbers 8:16 Krydshenvisninger

Exodus 13:2

“Consecrate to me all the firstborn; whatever is the first to open the womb among the Israelites, of human beings and animals, is mine.”

Numbers 3:12

“I hereby take the Levites from among the Israelites as substitutes for all the firstborn that open the womb among the Israelites. The Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 3:13

for all the firstborn are mine; when I killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both human and animal; they shall be mine. I am the Lord.”

Numbers 3:45

“Take the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for their livestock, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

Numbers 3:6

“Bring the tribe of Levi near and set them before Aaron the priest, so that they may assist him.

Numbers 3:9

You shall give the Levites to Aaron and his descendants; they are unreservedly given to him from among the Israelites.