Num 8:14-19 | ESV | STEP | Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel , and the Levites shall be mine.

a ch. 3:45; [ch. 16:9]

b[See ver. 13 above]

c ch. 3:9

d ch. 3:12, 45

eSee Ex. 13:2

f[See ver. 16 above]

g ch. 25:11, 13

hSee ch. 1:53

Numbers 8:14-19

14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and ^athe 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 ^bwave offering. 16 For 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, 18 and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel. 19 ^fAnd I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and ^gto make atonement for the people of Israel, ^hthat there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”