KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
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“And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And I have taken” | וָֽאֶקַּ֖ח | To take (in the widest variety of applications) | taken |
| “the Levites” | הַלְוִיִּ֔ם | A Levite or descendant of Levi | Levites |
| “for” | תַּ֥חַת | The bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc | for |
| “all” | כָּל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | all |
| “the firstborn” | בְּכ֖וֹר | First-born; hence, chief | firstborn |
| “of the children” | בִּבְנֵ֥י | A son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.) | children |
| “of Israel.” | יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
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16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
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