{"id":4924,"date":"2019-02-27T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:10:59","slug":"numbers-312-if-god-commanded-that-firstborn-sons-from-all-the-tribes-be-given-him-why-was-the-tribe-of-levi-given-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/numbers-312-if-god-commanded-that-firstborn-sons-from-all-the-tribes-be-given-him-why-was-the-tribe-of-levi-given-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers 3:12\u2014If God commanded that firstborn sons from all the tribes be given Him, why was the tribe of Levi given instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> God had commanded Moses that \u201call the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ex13.13\">Ex. 13:13<\/a>; cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ex22.29\">22:29<\/a>). However, this was never done. Instead, one whole tribe was set apart to God for the work of the priesthood (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Nu3.12\">Num. 3:12<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> The reason for the substitution is given in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Nu3.12\">Numbers 3:12<\/a>. The Lord declared: \u201cI Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel.\u201d Since they belonged to Him, God had the right to make the substitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: God had commanded Moses that \u201call the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem\u201d (Ex. 13:13; cf. 22:29). However, this was never done. Instead, one whole tribe was set apart to God for the work of the priesthood (Num. 3:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}