Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the sons 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 the Levites shall be Mine.

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.

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.

World English Bible

Thus you shall 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the Levites
לוי לויּי 
Leviyiy 
Usage: 283

תּוך 
Tavek 
Usage: 419

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

and the Levites
לוי לויּי 
Leviyiy 
Usage: 283

Context Readings

Moses Consecrates The Levites

13 And thou shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering to LORD. 14 Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 15 And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tent of meeting. And thou shall cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.

Cross References

Numbers 3:45

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites shall be mine. I am LORD.

Numbers 3:12

And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 6:2

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to LORD,

Numbers 8:17

For all the first-born among the sons of Israel are mine, both man and beast. On the day that I smote all the first-born 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 LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to

Numbers 18:6

And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of LORD, to stand before LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Malachi 3:17

And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, 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 bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle separated for the good-news of God

Galatians 1:15

But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,

Hebrews 7:26

For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

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