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The LORD took the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the people of Israel. The passage ties this to God’s claim on the firstborn from the day he struck the firstborn in Egypt. See Numbers 3:11–13.
11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
12I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
13for all the firstborn are mine; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal; mine they shall be: I am Yahweh.