Numbers 8:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, all the firstborn among the Israelites, human being and beast alike, belong to me; I consecrated them to myself on the day I killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Psalm 105:36

He struck down every firstborn in the land, the first fruits of all their vigor.

Psalm 135:8

He struck down Egypt’s firstborn, of human being and beast alike,

Psalm 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the first fruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.

Exodus 12:29

And so at midnight the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn of the animals.

Exodus 13:2

Consecrate to me every firstborn; whatever opens the womb among the Israelites, whether of human being or beast, belongs to me.

Exodus 29:44

Thus I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar, just as I also consecrate Aaron and his sons to be my priests.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it is I, the Lord, who makes them holy.

Leviticus 27:26

Note that a firstborn animal, which as such already belongs to the Lord, may not be dedicated. Whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

Numbers 3:13

because every firstborn is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to me every firstborn in Israel, human being and beast alike. They belong to me; I am the Lord. Census of the Levites.

Numbers 8:18

But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn Israelites;

Luke 2:23

just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,”

John 10:36

can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 17:19

And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Hebrews 10:29

Do you not think that a much worse punishment is due the one who has contempt for the Son of God, considers unclean the covenant-blood by which he was consecrated, and insults the spirit of grace?

Hebrews 11:28

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

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.