³⁹All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them.

⁴¹And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:

⁴²Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:

⁴³And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

⁴⁵Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

⁴⁶But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

⁴⁷Thou shalt take five sicles for every bead, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

⁴⁸And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.

⁴⁹Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom they had redeemed from the Levites,

⁵⁰For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary,

⁵¹And gave it to Aaron and his sons according to the word that the Lord had commanded him.

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