Numbers 3:12

3:12 “Look, ¹  I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of ²  every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

Numbers 5:4

5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken ³  to Moses, so the Israelites did.

Numbers 36:7

36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred ⁴  from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

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¹ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the Lord himself chose Levi.

² tn Literally “in the place of.”

³ tn The perfect tense is here given a past perfect nuance to stress that the word of the Lord preceded the obedience.

⁴ tn Heb “turned aside.”