Numbers 3:12
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| Overview - Numbers 3 | |
| 1 | The sons of Aaron. |
| 5 | The Levites are given to the priests instead of the first-born; |
| 14 | are numbered by their families. |
| 21 | The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites; |
| 27 | of the Kohathites; |
| 33 | of the Merarites. |
| 38 | The place and charge of Moses and Aaron. |
| 40 | The first-born are freed by the Levites. |
| 44 | The overplus are redeemed. |
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Numbers 3:12 (King James Version)
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;
- When God miraculously destroyed all the first-born of the Egyptians, ( Exodus 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
- " ( Exodus 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.
- Numbers 3:41 Numbers 3:45 ; Numbers 8:16 Numbers 8:18 18:6