Numbers 8:14-16 ▼

14 and you have separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;

15 and afterward the Levites come in to serve the Tent of Meeting, and you have cleansed them, and have waved them [as] a wave-offering.

16 For they are certainly given to Me out of the midst of the sons of Israel, instead of him who opens any womb—the firstborn of all; I have taken them for Myself from the sons of Israel;