Numbers 8:18 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁸ but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ I have taken the Levites in place of all the oldest among the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.

Numbers 8:18 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 48:14

But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Numbers 3:12

I hereby accept the Levites from among the Israelites as substitutes for all the firstborn that open the womb among the Israelites. The Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 3:9

You shall give the Levites to Aaron and his descendants; they are unreservedly given to him from among the Israelites.

Numbers 8:17

For all the firstborn among the Israelites are mine, both human and animal. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,

Numbers 8:19

Moreover, I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the service for the Israelites at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, in order that there may be no plague among the Israelites for coming too close to the sanctuary.