”They will be mine,” says YHWH Almighty, “on the day when I prepare my own possession. I will spare them just as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Numbers 8:14 - Y'all Version Bible In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the children of Israel, and the Levites will belong to me. 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 will be mine,” says YHWH Almighty, “on the day when I prepare my own possession. I will spare them just as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Look, I have selected y’all’s brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to y’all, dedicated to YHWH, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
“See, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel. So Levites will belong to me,
“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites belong to me; I am YHWH.
You are to give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are given-given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
“Speak to the children of Israel and tell them: ‘When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate themselves to YHWH,
You are to set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to YHWH.
For all the firstborn among the children of Israel 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.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
But when God, who set me apart from mother’s womb and called me through ʜɪꜱ grace, was pleased
At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of YHWH’s covenant, to stand before YHWH to minister to ʜɪᴍ, and to bless in ʜɪꜱ name, to this day.
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.