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40 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Muster every firstborn male from the Israelites[a] from one month[b] and above and count[c] their names. 41 And you will receive the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites,[d] and the animals[e] of the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the animals[f] among the Israelites.”[g] 42 So Moses mustered[h] all the firstborn among the Israelites[i] just as Yahweh commanded him.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:40 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 3:40 Literally “the son of a month”
  3. Numbers 3:40 Literally “and lift up the number of”
  4. Numbers 3:41 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Numbers 3:41 Hebrew “animal”
  6. Numbers 3:41 Hebrew “animal”
  7. Numbers 3:41 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  8. Numbers 3:42 Or “counted” or “summoned” or “enrolled”
  9. Numbers 3:42 Literally “sons/children of Israel”