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17 For all the firstborn among the Israelites are mine, both human and animal. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself, 18 but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites. Numbers 8:17-18, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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