Numbers 3:46

Easy To Read Version

There are 22,000 Levites, but there are 22,273 firstborn sons from the other families. This leaves 273 more firstborn sons than Levites.

Cross References

Exodus 13:13

Every firstborn donkey can be bought back from the Lord. You can offer a lamb and keep the donkey. If you don’t want to buy the donkey from the Lord, then kill it. It will be a sacrifice [85] —you must break its neck. But every firstborn baby boy [86] must be bought back from the Lord.

Exodus 13:15

In Egypt, Pharaoh was stubborn. He refused to let us leave. So the Lord killed every firstborn [87] in all the land. (The Lord killed the firstborn animals and the firstborn sons. [88])That is why I give every firstborn male animal to the Lord. And that is why I buy back each of my firstborn sons from the Lord.’