Numbers 3:40-48
1599 Geneva Bible
40 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn that are males among the children of Israel from a month old and above, and take the number of their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites to me [a]for all the firstborn of the children of Israel (I am the Lord) and the cattle of the Levites for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel.
42 And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
43 And all the firstborn males rehearsed by name (from a month old and above) according to their number were two and twenty thousand, two hundred seventy and three.
44 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites for all 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.)
46 And for the redeeming of the two hundred seventy and three, (which are more than the Levites) of the firstborn of the children of Israel,
47 Thou shalt also take five shekels for every person: after the weight of the Sanctuary shalt thou take it: (A)the shekel containeth twenty gerahs.
48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
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- Numbers 3:41 So that now the Levites should satisfy unto the Lord for the firstborn of Israel, save for the 273 which were more than the Levites, for whom they paid money.
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