Numbers 3:40-51
Redemption of the Firstborn
40Then Yahweh said to Moses, “aNumber every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and 1make a list of their names. 41“And you ashall take the Levites for Me, I am Yahweh, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel.” 42So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded him; 43and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were a22,273.
44Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 45“aTake the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am Yahweh. 46“aFor the redemption price of the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess beyond the Levites, 47you shall take afive 1shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in bterms of the shekel of the sanctuary (cthe shekel is twenty 2gerahs), 48and give the money, the redemption price of those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to his sons.” 49So Moses took the money of the redemption price from those who were in excess, beyond those redeemed by the Levites; 50from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365. 51Then Moses gave the money of the redemption price to Aaron and to his sons, at the 1command of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.