39. So Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord and counted the Levites by their clans. The total number of Levites at least one month old was twenty-two thousand.
40. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a list and count the firstborn sons at least one month old in each of the Israelite families.
41. They belong to me, but I will accept the Levites as substitutes for them, and I will accept the Levites' livestock as substitutes for the Israelites' firstborn livestock.”
42. Moses obeyed the Lord and counted the firstborn sons;