42. Moses counted, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn amongst 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 and two hundred and seventy-three.
44. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45. “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.
46. For the redemption of the two hundred and 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; according to 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.”