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Numbers Chapter 3

40. The Lord said to Moses: Count every firstborn male aged one month and upward of the children of Israel, and take the number of their names. 41. And you shall take the Levites for Me I am the Lord instead of all firstborns among the children of Israel. And [take] the Levites' animals instead of all the firstborn animals of the children of Israel. 42. So Moses counted every firstborn of Israel, as the Lord had commanded him. 43. The firstborn males aged one month and upward, according to the number of names, was twenty two thousand, two hundred and seventy three. 44. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:45. Take the Levites instead of all the firstborns among the children of Israel and the Levites' animals instead of their animals, and the Levites shall be Mine I am the Lord.46. As for the two hundred and seventy three of the children of Israel who required redemption, who are in excess of the Levites, 47. you shall take five shekels per head, according to the holy shekel, by which the shekel is twenty gerahs. 48. You shall give the money to Aaron and his sons, in redemption for the firstborns who are in excess of them.49. So Moses took the redemption money for those in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.50. He took the money from the firstborn of the children of Israel; one thousand, three hundred and sixty five of the holy shekels. 51. Then Moses gave the money of those redeemed to Aaron and his sons, in accordance with the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.