Numbers 3:39-41

New Life Version

³⁹ The number of all the Levite men a month old and older, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by their families as the Lord told them, was 22,000.

Levites Take the Place of First-Born Sons

⁴⁰ The Lord said to Moses, “Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel a month old and older. Write down their names. ⁴¹ Take the Levites for Me, instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel. I am the Lord. And take the cattle of the Levites instead of all the first-born among the cattle of the people of Israel.”