Numbers 8:17

New International Version

Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.

Cross References

Exodus 13:2

“Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

Luke 2:23

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”),

James 1:18

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

John 17:19

For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

John 10:36

what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

Ezekiel 20:12

Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.

Psalm 135:8

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, the firstborn of people and animals.

Psalm 105:36

Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.

Psalm 78:51

He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

Numbers 3:13

for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 27:26

“ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

Exodus 29:44

“So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

Exodus 12:29

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

Numbers 8:18

And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.