Numbers 3:41-43

Complete Jewish Bible

⁴¹ Then you are to take the L’vi’im for me, Adonai, in place of all the firstborn among the people of Isra’el, and the cattle of the L’vi’im in place of the firstborn of the cattle belonging to the people of Isra’el.” ⁴² Moshe counted, as Adonai had ordered him, all the firstborn among the people of Isra’el. ⁴³ The total number of firstborn males registered, a month old and over, of those who were counted, was 22,273.