then shalt thou take the Levites for me, me Yahweh, instead of every firstborn among the sons of Ishmael,—also the cattle of the Levites, instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.
And it was so—that all the firstborn of the males in the counting of names from one month old and upwards of such as were numbered of them,—were two-and-twenty thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.