Numbers 8:17

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17 for Mine [is] every first-born among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; in the day of my smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself;


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 17. And indeed even faith both in its inward and outward form, is from the Lord by love and charity; and this is made especially manifest when man is delivered from the power of evil by the Lord's work of redemption, and is sanctified, by the reception of charity.