Numbers 3:45-47

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴⁵ Take the Levites [for Me] instead of all the firstborn Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am the Lord.

⁴⁶ And for those 273 who are to be redeemed of the firstborn of the Israelites who outnumber the Levites,

⁴⁷ You shall take five shekels apiece, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs; you shall collect them,