“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 the LORD.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 3:45 in context
Numbers 3:42–48
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Moses counted, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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All 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.
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“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 the LORD.
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For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
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you 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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and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
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