45 (A)“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I am the Lord. 46 And for (B)the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, (C)who are more than the number of the Levites, 47 you shall take (D)five shekels for each one (E)individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, (F)the shekel of twenty gerahs.

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45 “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites are to be mine.(A) I am the Lord.(B) 46 To redeem(C) the 273 firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, 47 collect five shekels[a](D) for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel,(E) which weighs twenty gerahs.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:47 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams