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41 I am Yahweh. Take the Levites for me to be substitutes for all firstborn Israelites. Also take the animals of the Levites to be substitutes for all firstborn animals of the Israelites.”

42 So Moses registered all the firstborn Israelites as Yahweh commanded him. 43 The total of all the firstborn males at least one month old was 22,273. They were listed by name.

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41 And you will receive the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites,[a] and the animals[b] of the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the animals[c] among the Israelites.”[d] 42 So Moses mustered[e] all the firstborn among the Israelites[f] just as Yahweh commanded him. 43 And all the firstborn males[g] among the number of names from one month[h] and above, the ones counted,[i] were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:41 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 3:41 Hebrew “animal”
  3. Numbers 3:41 Hebrew “animal”
  4. Numbers 3:41 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Numbers 3:42 Or “counted” or “summoned” or “enrolled”
  6. Numbers 3:42 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  7. Numbers 3:43 Hebrew “male”
  8. Numbers 3:43 Literally “the son of a month”
  9. Numbers 3:43 Literally “the ones counted of them,” or “the ones mustered of them”