Numbers 3:43-45

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴³ And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saving:

⁴⁵ Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.