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Nu 3:13 Strong Concordance Because all the firstborn [01060] are mine; for on the day [03117] that I smote [05221] all the firstborn [01060] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] I hallowed [06942] unto me all the firstborn [01060] in Israel [03478], both man [0120] and beast [0929]: mine shall they be: I am the LORD [03068].
  King James Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The concluding words are better expressed thus: "Mine shall they be, Mine, the Lord's." On the subject of the firstborn see the notes at Num 3:43-51.
 
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43 And all the firstborn [01060] males [02145] by the number [04557] of names [08034], from a month [02320] old [01121] and upward [04605], of those that were numbered [06485] of them, were twenty [06242] and two [08147] thousand [0505] two hundred [03967] and threescore and thirteen [07657] [07969].
44 And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],
45 Take [03947] the Levites [03881] instead of all the firstborn [01060] among the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and the cattle [0929] of the Levites [03881] instead of their cattle [0929]; and the Levites [03881] shall be mine: I am the LORD [03068].
46 And for those that are to be redeemed [06302] of the two hundred [03967] and threescore and thirteen [07657] [07969] of the firstborn [01060] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], which are more [05736] than [05921] the Levites [03881];
47 Thou shalt even take [03947] five [02568] shekels [08255] apiece by the poll [01538], after the shekel [08255] of the sanctuary [06944] shalt thou take [03947] them: (the shekel [08255] is twenty [06242] gerahs [01626]:)
48 And thou shalt give [05414] the money [03701], wherewith the odd number [05736] of them is to be redeemed [06302], unto Aaron [0175] and to his sons [01121].
49 And Moses [04872] took [03947] the redemption [06306] money [03701] of them that were over [05736] and above them that were redeemed [06302] by the Levites [03881]:
50 Of the firstborn [01060] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] took [03947] he the money [03701]; a thousand [0505] three [07969] hundred [03967] and threescore [08346] and five [02568] shekels, after the shekel [08255] of the sanctuary [06944]:
51 And Moses [04872] gave [05414] the money [03701] of them that were redeemed [06302] [06306] unto Aaron [0175] and to his sons [01121], according to the word [06310] of the LORD [03068], as the LORD [03068] commanded [06680] Moses [04872].