40. Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
41. You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
42. Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
43. 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.
44. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
45. “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 Yahweh.
46. For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
47. you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
48. and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
49. Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
50. from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
51. and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.