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'He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

'But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.

'Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

'Again, if someone consecrates to the LORD part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

'If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him.

and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field banned from secular use; it shall be for the priest as his property.

'Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

'However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.

'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

'If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.

"Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head

"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.

"The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own flag, with the banners of their fathers' households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting at a distance.

"Count the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall count."

Their numbered men, in the counting of every male from a month old and upward, their numbered men were 7,500.

In the counting of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary.

Their numbered men in the counting of every male from a month old and upward: 6,200.

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the command of the LORD by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Count every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.

and all the firstborn males, by the number of names from a month old and upward for their numbered men, were 22,273.