Numbers:3:41-45
rsv@Numbers:3:41 @ And you shall take the Levites for me--I am the LORD--instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the people of Israel."
rsv@Numbers:3:42 @ So Moses numbered all the first-born among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.
rsv@Numbers:3:43 @ And all the first-born males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as numbered were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
rsv@Numbers:3:44 @ And the LORD said to Moses,
rsv@Numbers:3:45 @ "Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
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