Numbers 3:41-43

Modern English Version

⁴¹ You will take the Levites for Me (I am the Lord) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.

⁴² Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. ⁴³ All the firstborn males, by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.