Numbers 3:44
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Numbers 3:45
“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
Numbers 3:46
For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
Numbers 3:47
you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
Numbers 3:48
and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
Luke 2:22
When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
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Numbers 3:40
Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Numbers 3:41
You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
Numbers 3:42
Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:43
All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
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