Numbers 8:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ “For all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl are Mine, both man and beast. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim I set them apart unto 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

Then He struck all the first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

Psalm 135:8

Who struck the first-born of Mitsrayim, From man to beast.

Psalm 78:51

And He struck all the first-born in Mitsrayim, The first-fruits of strength in the tents of Ḥam,

Exodus 12:29

And it came to be at midnight that יהוה struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, 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 livestock.

Exodus 13:2

Set apart to Me all the first-born, the one opening the womb among the children of Yisra’ĕl, among man and among beast, it is Mine.

Exodus 29:44

“And I shall set apart the Tent of Appointment and the slaughter-place. And Aharon and his sons I set apart to serve as priests to Me.

Ezekiel 20:12

“And I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, to know that I am יהוה who sets them apart.

Leviticus 27:26

‘However, a first-born of the beasts, which is first-born to יהוה, no man sets it apart – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to יהוה.

Numbers 3:13

“because all the first-born are Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Yisra’ĕl, both man and beast. They are Mine, I am יהוה.

Numbers 8:18

“And I have taken the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Luke 2:23

as it has been written in the Torah of יהוה, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called set-apart to יהוה”

John 10:36

do you say of Him whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of Elohim’?

John 17:19

“And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?

Hebrews 11:28

By belief, he performed the Pĕsaḥ and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the first-born should touch them.

James 1:18

Having purposed it, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures.