Numbers 3:40-51

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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. [46] For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites, [47] you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): [48] and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons." [49] Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; [50] from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: [51] and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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Numbers 3:40-51 mentions Egypt and Wilderness of Sinai.

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