40. And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward and take the number of their names.
41. And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the Lord) instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the animals of the sons of Israel.
42. And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.
43. And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
44. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
45. Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the Lord.
46. And for the ransoms of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,
47. thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is of twenty gerahs).
48. And thou shalt give the money, of the ransoms of the odd number of them, unto Aaron and to his sons.