Numbers 8:18
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
Numbers 8:18 in other translations
| BSB | But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel: |
| DARBY | And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel. |
| BBE | And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites. |
| Webster | And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel. |
What does Numbers 8:18 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 8:5-26
Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the Levites. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they were distinguished from others. All who are employed for God, must be dedicated to him, according to the employment. Christians must be baptized, ministers must be ordained; we must first give ourselves unto the Lord, and then…
Numbers 8:18 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 8:17
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.
- Numbers 8:18
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 8:19
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
Numbers 8:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y he tomado los Levitas en lugar de todos los primogénitos en los hijos de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et j’ai pris les Lévites à la place de tous les premiers-nés parmi les fils d’Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich habe die Leviten genommen anstatt aller Erstgeborenen unter den Kindern Israel; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et tuli Levitas pro cunctis primogenitis filiorum Israël, |