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 two hundred seventy-three.
44. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45. “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among 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 seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,