Numbers 3:12 (KJV)

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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 shall be mine

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When God miraculously destroyed all the first-born of the Egyptians, (Ex 12:29,) he spared those of the Israelites; and, in commemoration of that event, he was pleased to appoint that all the first-born males "should be set apart unto himself." (Ex 13:12-16.) God is here pleased to relinquish this claim, and to appoint the whole tribe of Levi to attend his immediate service in their stead. Nu 3:41 Nu 3:45 Nu 8:16 Nu 8:18 Nu 18:6

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