nkjv Numbers:8:16-18
nkjv@Numbers:8:16 @ For they are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the children of Israel.
nkjv@Numbers:8:17 @ For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them to Myself.
nkjv@Numbers:8:18 @ I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel.