Numbers 3:12-14

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹² “Out of all the Israelites, I have taken the Levites to be substitutes for every firstborn male offspring among them. The Levites are mine, ¹³ because every firstborn is mine. The day I killed every firstborn male in Egypt, I set apart as holy every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They will be mine. I am the Lord.”

¹⁴ The Lord said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,