Verse 17
Numbers 8:17
King James Version
17
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel
are mine,
both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י לִ֤/י כָל בְּכוֹר֙ בִּ/בְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בָּ/אָדָ֖ם וּ/בַ/בְּהֵמָ֑ה בְּ/י֗וֹם הַכֹּתִ֤/י כָל בְּכוֹר֙ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם הִקְדַּ֥שְׁתִּי אֹתָ֖/ם לִֽ/י
English Translation
For I have consecrated every firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast; on the day when I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.
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Chapter 8 Context
1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light o...
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3
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded M...
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4
And this work of the candlestick
was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereo...
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5
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
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7
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let th...
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8
Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering,
even
fine flour mingled with oil, and an...
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9
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather th...
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10
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands u...
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11
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD
for an offering of the children of Israel, that th...
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12
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one
f...
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13
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them
for an offering unt...
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14
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be min...
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15
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and...
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16
For they
are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every w...
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17
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel
are mine,
both man and beast: on the day that I smot...
18
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
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19
And I have given the Levites
as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, t...
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20
And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites accordi...
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21
And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them
as an offering...
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22
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before...
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23
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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This
is it that
belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go...
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25
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service
thereof, and shall serve n...
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26
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, an...
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