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Bible in Basic English

So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will 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.

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].

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 Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord. 14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine. 15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

Cross References

Numbers 3:45

Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.

Numbers 3:12

See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

Numbers 6:2

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

Numbers 8:17

For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.

Numbers 16:9-10

Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;

Numbers 18:6

Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

Malachi 3:17

And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

Galatians 1:15

But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

Hebrews 7:26

It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

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