Numbers 8:14-18
14“Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and athe Levites shall be mine. 15And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a bwave offering. 16For they are cwholly given to me from among the people of Israel. dInstead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself. 17 eFor 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, 18and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.
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