Num 3:45, 8:17, 16:9-10, 18:6, Mal 3:17 | ESV | STEP | Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel , and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle . The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord .

Numbers 3:45

45 ^a“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.

Numbers 8:17

17 ^bFor all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,

Numbers 16:9-10

9 is it ^ctoo small a thing for you that the God of Israel has ^dseparated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them, 10 and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?

Numbers 18:6

6 ^eAnd behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. ^fThey are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

Malachi 3:17

17 “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, ^gin the day when I make up ^hmy treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.