Numbers 8:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ 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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the Israelites are Mine, both of man and beast; on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt [not of Israel], I consecrated them and set them apart for Myself.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Every oldest male among the Israelites is mine, whether human or animal. When I killed all the oldest males in the land of Egypt, I dedicated them to myself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the sons of Israel, as much from men as from beasts, are mine. From the day when I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I have sanctified them to myself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and of beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself.

Numbers 8:17 Cross References

Psalm 105:36

He smote all the first-born in their land, the first issue of all their strength.

Psalm 135:8

He it was who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast;

Psalm 78:51

He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.

Exodus 13:2

“Consecrate to me all the first-born; whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

Exodus 29:44

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priest.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Leviticus 27:26

“But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.

Numbers 3:13

for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the first-born in Israel, both of man and of beast; they shall be mine: I am the Lord.”

Numbers 8:18

and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.

Luke 2:23

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

John 10:36

do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 17:19

And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.