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 "I have chosen the Levites"
 
-# each firstborn, the first issue of the womb
+# each firstborn, who opens the womb
 
-The phrase "the first issue of the womb," repeats the phrase "each firstborn."
+The phrase "opens the womb" is a way of talking about the first baby being born. Alternate translation: "every firstborn son, the first to come from the womb"