42. So Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn Israelites.
43. But all the firstborn males from a month old and upward as numbered were 22,273 [273 more than the Levites].
44. And the Lord said to Moses,
45. Take the Levites [for Me] instead of all the firstborn Israelites, and the Levites' cattle instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am the Lord.
46. And for those 273 who are to be redeemed of the firstborn of the Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
47. You shall take five shekels apiece, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs; you shall collect them,