Numbers 3:39–51

³⁹All those counted from the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered^r according to the word of Yahweh,^s according to their clans, every male from one month^t and above were twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰And Yahweh said to Moses, “Muster every firstborn male from the Israelites^u from one month^v and above and count^w their names. ⁴¹And you will receive the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites,^x and the animals^y of the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the animals^z among the Israelites.”^{a 42}So Moses mustered^b all the firstborn among the Israelites^c just as Yahweh commanded him. ⁴³And all the firstborn males^d among the number of names from one month^e and above, the ones counted,^f were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁵“Receive the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites,^g and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I am Yahweh. ⁴⁶And the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the Israelites^h who are excessive over the Levites, ⁴⁷you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahsⁱ per shekel. ⁴⁸You will give the money to Aaron, and to his sons the ransom of the ones who are excessive among them.” ⁴⁹And Moses received the money of the redemption from the ones who were excessive from those redeemed of the Levites. ⁵⁰From the firstborn of the Israelites^j he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, in the sanctuary shekel. ⁵¹And Moses gave the money of the ransom to Aaron and to his sons according to the word^k of Yahweh just as Yahweh commanded Moses.