Numbers 8:16NET Bible
For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.
Related Verses
Genesis 2:22
Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Genesis 2:23
Then the man said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."
Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
Genesis 3:23
So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.