42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded him.

43 And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names from a month old and above, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

45 ^a“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I am the Lord.  ‡

46 And for ^athe redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, ^bwho are more than the number of the Levites,  ‡