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Numbers 3:45

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“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

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Numbers 3:45 in other translations

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.

Numbers 3:45 · American Standard Version

Numbers 3:45 in context

  1. 43All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
  2. 44Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  3. 45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
  4. 46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
  5. 47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);