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Cleansing the Levites

Numbers 8:18

In 11 translations

BSB
But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.
KJV
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
WEB
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
ASV
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.
LSV
and I take the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
YLT
and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:
DBY
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
DRC
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel:
GNV
And I haue taken the Leuites for all the first borne of the children of Israel,
JPS
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.
LXXE
And I took the Levites in the place of every first-born among the children of Israel.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וָאֶקַּח֙ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם תַּ֥חַת כָּל־בְּכ֖וֹר בִּבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ἔλαβον τοὺς Λευίτας ἀντὶ παντὸς πρωτοτόκου ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ.

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