StoneCryAI Bible Dictionary

Numbers 3:42

WEB

📖 Read Numbers 3
◀ Num 3:41Num 3:43 ▶

Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

Context

39All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
40Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel); and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
42Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
43All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
44Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

Read full chapter →

Ask AI about this verse

Answers based solely on Scripture.

Ask directly

📖 Numbers — All Chapters

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536

Read Numbers 3 →