The Lord also said to Moses,
Moses listed all the firstborn men and boys that were one month old or older. There were 22,273 names on that list.
“I, the Lord, give this command: ‘Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn [45] men from the other families of Israel. And I will take the animals of the Levites instead of the animals of the other people. The Levites are mine.
