Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
New American Standard Bible
“Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and
King James Version
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Holman Bible
In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to Me.
International Standard Version
This is how you are to separate the descendants of Levi from among the Israelis. The descendants of Levi belong to me.
A Conservative Version
Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
Amplified
“Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense].
Bible in Basic English
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, that the Levites may be mine.
Julia Smith Translation
And separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel and the Levites were to me.
King James 2000
Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites}, and the Levites will be for me.
Modern King James verseion
So you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall be Mine.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thou shalt separate the Levites, from among the children of Israel, that they be mine:
NET Bible
And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
New Heart English Bible
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
The Emphasized Bible
thus shalt thou separate the Levites out of the midst of the sons of Israel, - thus shall the Levites become mine.
Webster
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Youngs Literal Translation
and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
Interlinear
Badal
Tavek
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 8:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moses Consecrates The Levites
13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh. 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 15 "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
Cross References
Numbers 3:45
"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
Numbers 3:12
"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
Numbers 6:2
"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
Numbers 8:17
For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers 16:9-10
Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
Numbers 18:6
I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
Galatians 1:15
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;