Numbers 8:18
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
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Context
16 For they wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel mine, man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the Yahuah commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.