“And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.”
For the Levites are wholly given to me from among the Israelites; I have taken them for myself in place of all that open the womb, the firstborn of all the Israelites — God's explicit statement reiterates the substitution principle: Levites replace the firstborn who belonged to God after the exodus (Exod 13:2). This substitution was made possible by the Passover, where firstborn Israelites were spared while Egyptian firstborn perished. The Levites now embody this redemptive principle, serving perpetually as the nation's dedicated substitutes.
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