Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert: Tribe of Levi taken instead of the first-born

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;

for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'