Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
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Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
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Numbers 3:12
See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;
Numbers 3:13
For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord.
Numbers 8:14
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
Numbers 8:16
For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.
Numbers 18:6
Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:9
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
Malachi 3:17
And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
Acts 13:2
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
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Numbers 3:39
All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 3:40
And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names.
Numbers 3:41
And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:42
So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.
Numbers 3:43
Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.
Numbers 3:44
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
Numbers 3:46
And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites,
Numbers 3:47
Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
Numbers 3:48
And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.
Numbers 3:50
From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
Numbers 18:15
The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.
Luke 2:22
And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord
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Exodus 32:26
Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.
Exodus 32:27
And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.
Exodus 32:28
And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.
Exodus 32:29
And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.
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