Numbers 3:11

Numbers 3:11 says, And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Verse twelve adds, And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;  God told Moses that He had taken the Levites instead of the first born of every family to be His.  Verse thirteen continues, 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.  God reminded Moses that since He had passed over the first born of the people of Israel when He had killed the first born of the Egyptians that the first born male of men and beast were His.  God is due everything we have as followers of Christ, since He set us free from the penalty of sin, which is death.  Verse fourteen states, And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,  Verse fifteen adds, Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.  God the told Moses to count the children of Levi by the house of their fathers, but this time he was to count every male from one month old, and not from the age of twenty who were able to go to war.  I don't believe that this means that as Christians we are not to be ready to fight for our believe in Jesus Christ, though some Christians disagree.  Verse sixteen says, And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.  Moses did what God commanded him to do, and so must we as followers of Christ today.  Verse seventeen adds, And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.  Levi had three sons named Gershom, Koheth, and Merari.  Verse eighteen states, And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.  Then we are told the names of the grandsons of Levi, starting with the sons of Gershon, who had two sons, Libni and Shimei.  Verse nineteen continues, And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.  Kobath had four sons, Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.  Verse twenty concludes, And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.  Merari had two sons named Mahli and Mushi.  There were a total of eight grandsons and their families, and they were all equal in God's sight.  We as Christians are all God's children, never a grandchild, and we are all equal in God's sight.