Numbers 8:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Yisra'el; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisra'el, I have taken them to me.

Cross References

Exodus 13:2

*Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Yisra'el, both of man and of animal. It is mine.*

Numbers 3:12

*Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Yisra'el; and the Levites shall be mine:

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 made holy to me all the firstborn in Yisra'el, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am the LORD.*

Numbers 3:45

*Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el, and the livestock of the Levites instead of 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 Aharon the Kohen, that they may minister to him.

Numbers 3:9

You shall give the Levites to Aharon and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el.