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Numbers 3:13 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD. "
Numbers 3:13
Verse in Context
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number
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Numbers 3:1
"These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai."
Numbers 3:2
"And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar."
Numbers 3:3
"These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office."
Numbers 3:4
"And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father."
Numbers 3:5
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"
Numbers 3:6
"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister"
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