Numbers 3:9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.

English Standard Version
And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall thus give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.

King James Bible
And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been assigned exclusively to him from the Israelites.

International Standard Version
Assign the descendants of Levi to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelis.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

Cross References

Numbers 3:8
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 8:16
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.

Numbers 8:19
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.

Numbers 16:9
Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?

Numbers 18:6
And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:1-13 There was much work belonging to the priests' office, and there were now only Aaron and his two sons to do it; God appoints the Levites to attend them. Those whom God finds work for, he will find help for. The Levites were taken instead of the first-born. When He that made us, saves us, as the first-born of Israel were saved, we are laid under further obligations to serve him faithfully. God's right to us by redemption, confirms the right he has to us by creation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel, &c.—The priests hold the place of God, and the Levites are the servants of God in the obedience they render to the priests.