42. And Mosheh registered all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl as יהוה had commanded him.
43. And all the first-born males, by the number of names, from one month old and above of their registered ones, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
44. And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
45. “Take the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the livestock of the Lĕwites instead of their livestock. And the Lĕwites shall be Mine, I am יהוה.
46. “And for the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl, who are more than the number of the Lĕwites,
47. you shall take five sheqels for each one, head by head – take it by the sheqel of the set-apart place, the sheqel of twenty gĕrahs.
48. “And you shall give the silver, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and his sons.”