“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.”
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle — the substitution is commanded directly, establishing the Levites as the covenant mechanism for transferring Israel's firstborn obligation to God.
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