Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
WEB
In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.
YLT
and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
DBT
And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, that the Levites may be mine.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC