"The Levites are now to be mine. When I killed all the first-born of the Egyptians, I consecrated as my own the oldest son of each Israelite family and the first-born of every animal. Now, instead of having the first-born sons of Israel as my own, I have the Levites; they will belong to me. I am the LORD."

"Now dedicate the Levites as mine in place of all the first-born Israelite sons, and dedicate the livestock of the Levites in place of the first-born of the Israelites' livestock.

I have claimed them in the place of all the first-born sons of the Israelites, and they belong to me alone.

"Every first-born child or animal that the Israelites present to me belongs to you. But you must accept payment to buy back every first-born child, and must also accept payment for every first-born animal that is ritually unclean.

Then he sent young men, and they burned sacrifices to the LORD and sacrificed some cattle as fellowship offerings.

Moses took half of the blood of the animals and put it in bowls; and the other half he threw against the altar.

So he stood at the gate of the camp and shouted, "Everyone who is on the LORD's side come over here!" So all the Levites gathered around him,

The Levites obeyed, and killed about three thousand men that day.

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,