Numbers 8:14
What does Numbers 8:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 8:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, that the Levites may be mine.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.
- Malachi 3:17
And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
- Numbers 6:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah,
- Numbers 16:9
seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them;
- Numbers 18:6
And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
- Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
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