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Numbers 3:10-13
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Numbers 3:10-13
Contemporary English Version
10 who have been appointed to be priests. Anyone else who tries to perform the duties of a priest must be put to death.
11-13 (A) Moses, I have chosen these Levites from all Israel, and they will belong to me in a special way. When I killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, I decided that the first-born sons in every Israelite family and the first-born males of their flocks and herds would be mine.[a] But now I accept these Levites in place of the first-born sons of the Israelites.
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- 3.11-13 When I killed … mine: See Exodus 13.1,2, 11-16.
Numbers 3:10-12
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Numbers 3:10-12
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10 Appoint Aaron(A) and his sons to serve as priests;(B) anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”(C)
11 The Lord also said to Moses, 12 “I have taken the Levites(D) from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring(E) of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine,(F)
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