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Numbers 3:44

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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Context

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.
46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel)) of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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