Num 8:13-18 | ESV | STEP | And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons , and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord .

c[See ver. 13 above]

Numbers 8:13-18

13 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as ^aa wave offering to the Lord.

14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and ^bthe Levites shall be mine. 15 And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a ^cwave offering. 16 For they are ^dwholly given to me from among the people of Israel. ^eInstead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself. 17 ^fFor 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, 18 and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.