Numbers 3:45

WEB

“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.

Context

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);

48and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

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