Topical Bible: The Levites: Taken Instead of the First-Born of Israel

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Numbers 3:12,13,40-45
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that opens the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
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Numbers 8:16-18
For they are wholly given to 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 to me.
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The Levites Ought to be Utterly Free from all Earthly Desires. ...
... is no light one, for the Lord says of them: "Behold I have taken the Levites from
among the children of Israel, instead of every first-born that openeth the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter l the levites ought.htm

Fifth Day. Holiness and Redemption.
... priests for the first-born (Numbers 3:12, 13, viii.16, 17): 'The Levites are wholly
given unto me; instead of the first-born have I taken them unto ...
/.../murray/holy in christ/fifth day holiness and redemption.htm

Of the Right of Bishops not to be Accused or Hurt by Detraction.
... of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their ... Lord." [2851] If the Lord
willed the Levites to be His own, how much more has He taken the priests ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/ii of the right of.htm

The Ministerial Office
... God then appointed that instead of the first-born in every ... Meantime, not many of
the Levites were Prophets. ... our thoughts: And if any Preacher had taken such a ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 115 the ministerial office.htm

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
... the tribe of Levi was taken, and the ... Hence that appointed priesthood, and the Levites
their attendants, conducted public services instead of, and for ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter xi covenanting enforced by.htm

Manner of Covenanting.
... from us." That He, the priests and Levites, the rulers ... places, made a Covenant with
idols instead of God ... in that covenant into which Isaac was taken, in vowing ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter ii manner of covenanting.htm

The Pentateuch.
... titles of the several books are taken from prominent ... he might be to the people instead
of eyes ... Leuitikon, Levitical, pertaining to the Levites) indicates that ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xix the pentateuch.htm

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
... reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests ... for righteousness, were,
as he was, taken into covenant ... is presented as aground of trust, instead of the ...
/.../the ordinance of covenanting/chapter viii covenanting according to.htm

The Fifth Day in Passion-Week - Make Ready the Passover!'
... on, the Hallel [5633] was being chanted by the Levites. ... mouth to vent, special care
being taken that, in ... the evening from Friday to Saturday, instead of from ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter ix the fifth day.htm

The Gospel Refuge.
... bulwarks than in one of these little cities of the Levites. ... wrap himself in a portion
of it, instead of the ... so full of promise, was to be early taken"her sun ...
/.../macduff/the cities of refuge or the name of jesus/iii the gospel refuge.htm