They shall be mine,* says the LORD of Armies, *my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Numbers 8:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el, and the Levites shall be mine. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense]. American Standard Version (1901) Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine. Common English Bible You will separate the Levites from the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine. Catholic Public Domain Version and you shall separate them from the midst of the sons of Israel, so that they may be for me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine. |
They shall be mine,* says the LORD of Armies, *my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el: to you they are a gift, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
*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:
*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.
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.
*Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazir, to separate himself to the LORD,
You shall set the Levites before Aharon, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
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.
Sha'ul, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah, called to be an emissary, set apart for the Good News of God,
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
For such a Kohen Gadol was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;