Numbers 3:40-44
Numbers 3:40
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Count every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.
Numbers 3:41
And you shall take the Levites for Me—I am the Lord—instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel.”
Numbers 3:42
So Moses counted all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded him;
Numbers 3:43
and all the firstborn males, by the number of names from a month old and upward for their numbered men, were 22,273.
Numbers 3:44
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,