Numbers 3:43-45

Common English Bible

⁴³ All the oldest males over one month old, recorded by name according to their enrollment, were 22,273.

⁴⁴ Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ⁴⁵ Take the Levites in place of all the oldest Israelites and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle. The Levites are mine; I am the Lord.