You shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Yisra'el.*
All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.