Numbers 3:45-47

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⁴⁵ “I, the Lord, give this command: ‘Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn men from the other families of Israel. And I will take the animals of the Levites instead of the animals of the other people. The Levites are mine. ⁴⁶ There are 22,000 Levites, but there are 22,273 firstborn sons from the other families. This leaves 273 more firstborn sons than Levites. ⁴⁷ Using the official measure, collect five shekels^[a] of silver for each of the 273 people. (The shekel by the official measure weighs 20 gerahs.^[b]) Collect that silver from the Israelites.