Numbers 3:41-45 and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.'

YLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴¹ and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.' ⁴² And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel. ⁴³ And all the first-born—male—by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three. ⁴⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ `Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah.