“And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;”
Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the children of Israel — the substitution of Levites for firstborn connects Numbers 3 to Exodus 12-13, where God claimed all firstborn male animals and humans as his own. The Levites become the means by which Israel's debt to God for the firstborn is paid.
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