Numbers 8:17

English Standard Version 2016

For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,

Cross References

Exodus 13:2

“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

Luke 2:23

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

James 1:18

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

Hebrews 11:28

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

Hebrews 10:29

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

John 17:19

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

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’?

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Psalm 135:8

He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast;

Psalm 105:36

He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength.

Psalm 78:51

He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Numbers 3:13

for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 27:26

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

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 priests.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Numbers 8:18

and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.