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45 “I, the Lord, give this command: ‘Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn men from the other families of Israel. And I will take the animals of the Levites instead of the animals of the other people. The Levites are mine. 46 There are 22,000 Levites, but there are 22,273 firstborn sons from the other families. This leaves 273 more firstborn sons than Levites. 47 Using the official measure, collect five shekels[a] of silver for each of the 273 people. (The shekel by the official measure weighs 20 gerahs.[b]) Collect that silver from the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:47 five shekels 2 ounces (57.5 g).
  2. Numbers 3:47 gerahs 1/50 of an ounce (.6 g).

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