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And Jehovah said to Moses, Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take the number of their names.

And you shall take the Levites for Me, I am Jehovah, instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the livestock of the sons of Israel.

And Moses numbered as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of those numbered of them were twenty two thousand, two hundred and seventy three.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am Jehovah.

And from those redeemed of the two hundred and seventy three who are more than the Levites, of the first-born of the sons of Israel,

you shall even take five shekels apiece, by the head; you shall take by the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs to the shekel.

And you shall give the silver to Aaron, and to his sons, of the redeemed over and above among them.

And Moses shall take the redemption silver from those that are over and above those that were redeemed by the Levites,

from the first-born of the sons of Israel he shall take the silver, a thousand, three hundred and sixty five by the sanctuary shekel.

And Moses shall give the silver of those redeemed to Aaron and to his sons, according to Jehovah's command, as Jehovah has commanded Moses.