Numbers 3:40-45

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[40] Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. [41] You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel." [42] Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. [43] All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. [44] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [45] "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Numbers 3:40-45 mentions Egypt and Wilderness of Sinai.

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