39. The total enrollment of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron enrolled at the direction of the Lord, by clans, every male a month old or more, was twenty-two thousand.
40. The Lord then said to Moses: Enroll every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and count the number of their names.
41. Then take the Levites for me—I am the Lord—in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, as well as the Levites’ cattle, in place of all the firstborn among the cattle of the Israelites.
42. So Moses enrolled all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.
43. All the firstborn males, registered by name, of a month or more, numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.