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43 And all the firstborn males[a] among the number of names from one month[b] and above, the ones counted,[c] were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 45 “Receive the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites,[d] and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I am Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:43 Hebrew “male”
  2. Numbers 3:43 Literally “the son of a month”
  3. Numbers 3:43 Literally “the ones counted of them,” or “the ones mustered of them”
  4. Numbers 3:45 Literally “sons/children of Israel”