Numbers 8:14

14 In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

Numbers 8:14 in Other Translations

14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

14 "Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

14 In this way, you will set the Levites apart from the rest of the people of Israel, and the Levites will belong to me.

14 This is the procedure for setting apart the Levites from the rest of the People of Israel; the Levites are exclusively for my use.

14 In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to Me.

Numbers 8:14 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 8:14

Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children
of Israel
By sprinkling the water of purification upon them; by offering sacrifices for them; by presenting them before the Lord, with the hands of the people of Israel put upon them; by offering and waving them before the Lord, and by setting them before Aaron and his sons, as their ministers:

and the Levites shall be mine:
in a special and peculiar manner devoted to his service, and by him given to his priests for that purpose; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan,

``and the Levites shall minister before me.''

Numbers 8:14 In-Context

12 “Then the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, using one for a sin offering to the LORD and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

13 Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the LORD.

14 In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

15 “After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting.

16 They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Israelite woman.

Cross References

• 1. S Numbers 3:12