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Numbers 8:18
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KJ21
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
ASV
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.
AMP
And I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the Israelites.
AMPC
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the Israelites.
BRG
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
CSB
But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
CSBA
But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
CEB
I have taken the Levites in place of all the oldest among the Israelites.
CJB
But I have taken the L’vi’im in place of all the firstborn among the people of Isra’el,
CEV
But now I have chosen these Levites as substitutes for the first-born sons,
DARBY
And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
DRA
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel:
ERV
But now I will take the Levites in their place. I will take the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons from the other families in Israel.
EASY
But now I have not taken all the firstborn sons among the Israelites. I have taken the Levites instead.
EHV
But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
ESV
and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.
ESVUK
and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.
EXB
But I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn ·in Israel [L among the sons/T children of Israel].
GNV
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel,
GW
So I have taken the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn sons of the Israelites.
GNT
I am now taking the Levites instead of all the first-born of the Israelites,
HCSB
But I have taken the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
ICB
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons in Israel.
ISV
taking the descendants of Levi instead of every firstborn of the Israelis.
JUB
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the sons of Israel.
KJV
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
AKJV
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
LSB
But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
LEB
and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the Israelites.
TLB
Yes, I have accepted the Levites in place of all the eldest sons of Israel.
MSG
“After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a Wave-Offering to God, they can go to work in the Tent of Meeting. The Levites have been selected out of the People of Israel for my exclusive use; they function in place of every firstborn male born to an Israelite woman. Every firstborn male in Israel, animal or human, is set apart for my use. When I struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, I consecrated them for my holy uses. But now I take the Levites as stand-ins in place of every firstborn son in Israel, selected out of the People of Israel, and I have given the Levites to Aaron and his sons to do all the work involved in the Tent of Meeting on behalf of all the People of Israel and to make atonement for them so that nothing bad will happen to them when they approach the Sanctuary.”
MEV
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
NOG
So I have taken the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn sons of the Israelites.
NABRE
But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn Israelites;
NASB
But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
NASB1995
But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.
NCB
But I have taken the Levites as a substitute for all the firstborn of the people of Israel.
NCV
But I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn in Israel.
NET
So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.
NIRV
And I have taken the Levites in place of all the sons born first in Israel.
NIV
And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.
NIVUK
And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.
NKJV
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
NLV
But I have taken the Levites instead of every first-born among the people of Israel.
NLT
Yes, I have claimed the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons of Israel.
NRSVA
but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.
NRSVACE
but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.
NRSVCE
but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.
NRSVUE
but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.
OJB
And I have taken the Levi’im tachat (instead of) Kol Bechor Bnei Yisroel.
RGT
“And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel,
RSV
and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.
RSVCE
and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.
TLV
So I am taking the Levites in place of the firstborn of Bnei-Yisrael,
VOICE
But see, I am willing to accept this representative group—that the Levites, from among the Israelites, will be Mine,
WEB
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
WYC
And I took the Levites for all the first begotten (sons) of the sons of Israel; (And I took the Levites in place of all the first-born sons of the Israelites;)
YLT
and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:
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