¹³ because all the firstborn are Mine. In the day when I was striking down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself every firstborn in Israel—whether man or animal—as Mine. I am Adonai.”

¹⁴ Adonai spoke in the Sinai wilderness to Moses saying, ¹⁵ “Count the sons of Levi. According to their ancestral house, by their families, every male a month old and upward you are to number them.”