Numbers 8:15-17

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁵ “Once you have made them clean and presented them as an offering, the Levites may come and do their work at the tent of meeting. ¹⁶ They will be the only Israelites given to me. I have taken them to be mine as substitutes for every firstborn male offspring of the Israelites. ¹⁷ Every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. The day I killed every firstborn male in Egypt, I set them apart as holy to me.