Numbers 8:18

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el.

Cross References

Genesis 48:14

Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menasheh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Menasheh was the firstborn.

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 3:9

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.

Numbers 8:17

For all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

Numbers 8:19

I have given the Levites as a gift to Aharon and to his sons from among the children of Yisra'el, to do the service of the children of Yisra'el in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra'el; that there be no plague among the children of Yisra'el, when the children of Yisra'el come near to the sanctuary.*