Numbers 8:14-18

“So you shall single out the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.

Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

for they are exclusively given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself instead of the firstborn of every womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.

For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the people and among the animals; on the day that I fatally struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.

But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.