And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward: and thou shalt take the sum of them.
These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb:
He that shall overcome, shall thus be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.
And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy: every one that is written in life in Jerusalem:
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.
I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord. And their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel.