Numbers 3:13
American Standard Version
for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.
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Numbers 3:13 in other translations
for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”
Numbers 3:13 in context
- 11And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- 12And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
- 13for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.
- 14And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- 15Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.