Numbers 3:43-45

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴³ All the firstborn males by name (from a month old and above), according to their number, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy three.

⁴⁴ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

⁴⁵ “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites shall be Mine. I am the LORD.