42. So Moses enrolled all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.
43. All the firstborn males, registered by name, of a month or more, numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
44. The Lord said to Moses:
45. Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of their cattle, that the Levites may belong to me. I am the Lord.
46. As a redemption-price for the two hundred and seventy-three firstborn of the Israelites over and above the number of the Levites,
47. you shall take five shekels for each individual, according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
48. Give this money to Aaron and his sons as a redemption-price for the extra number.