Numbers 3:46-51

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

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Numbers 3:46-51 mentions Egypt and Wilderness of Sinai.

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