Numbers 3:41-43

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁴¹ I am the Lord. 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 the Lord commanded him. ⁴³ The total of all the firstborn males at least one month old was 22,273. They were listed by name.