Numbers 8:18
So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.
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- Num 8:13-175 verses90%
13You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
14And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
15“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.
16For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.
17For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.
- Num 3:11-144 verses90%
11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
12“Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
13because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the LORD.”
14The Numbering of the Levites Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai:
- Num 3:44-463 verses88%
44Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the LORD.
46And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Num 3:40-423 verses87%
40The Substitution for the Firstborn Then the LORD said to Moses,“Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41And take the Levites for me– I am the LORD– instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”
42So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Num 8:19-202 verses82%
19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”
20So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.
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6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.
- Exod 13:1-22 verses79%
1The Law of the Firstborn The LORD spoke to Moses:
2“Set apart to me every firstborn male– the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.”
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21See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting.
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6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.
- Num 8:9-113 verses76%
9You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.
10Then you are to bring the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;
11and Aaron is to offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work of the LORD.
- Num 18:23-264 verses75%
23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
24But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
25Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:
26“You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them,‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the LORD a tenth of the tithe.
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9You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.
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8The Portion of the Priests The LORD spoke to Aaron,“See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance.
- Num 18:14-152 verses74%
14“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.
15The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.
- Num 8:22-232 verses73%
22After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.
23The Work of the Levites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Num 3:49-502 verses73%
49So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.
50From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’
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5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.
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5“Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.”
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9Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
- Deut 18:1-22 verses71%
1Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.
2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
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12then you must give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have– the males will be the LORD’s.
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48The LORD had said to Moses,
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30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”
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34for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”
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19“Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.
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33But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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21And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.