Numbers 8:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ They will be given to me from the Israelites. I have taken them for myself. They are mine instead of the firstborn son of every Israelite woman. ¹⁷ Every firstborn male in Israel—man or animal—is mine. I killed all the firstborn in Egypt. So now I set them aside for myself. ¹⁸ I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons in Israel.