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Cleansing the Levites

Numbers 8:14

In 11 translations

BSB
In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.
KJV
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
WEB
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
ASV
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
LSV
and you have separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
YLT
and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
DBY
And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, that the Levites may be mine.
DRC
And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine.
GNV
Thus thou shalt separate the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and the Leuites shall be mine.
JPS
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.
LXXE
And thou shalt separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be mine.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְהִבְדַּלְתָּ֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָ֥יוּ לִ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ διαστελεῖς τοὺς Λευίτας ἐκ μέσου υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἔσονταί μοι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 18:6Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.
  • Malachi 3:17“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • Numbers 3:45“Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.
  • Numbers 8:17For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
  • Galatians 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
  • Numbers 3:12“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me,
  • Numbers 6:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
  • Hebrews 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
  • Romans 1:1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
  • Numbers 16:9–10Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to…
  • Deuteronomy 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.

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