Numbers 3:44-46

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁴ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saving:

⁴⁵ Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

⁴⁶ But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,