Parallel Verses
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
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
Badal
Tavek
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 8:14
Verse Info
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: