“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Numbers 8:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. More versionsKing 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 shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
And behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the people of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every first-born that opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,
“Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.
And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.
“Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,
And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
For all the first-born among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast; on the day that I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace,
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.