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17 For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed[a] all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

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  1. Numbers 8:17 tn The idiomatic “on the day of” precedes the infinitive construct of נָכָה (nakhah) to form the temporal clause: “in the day of my striking…” becomes “when I struck.”