Numbers 3:43-45

Complete Jewish Bible

⁴³ The total number of firstborn males registered, a month old and over, of those who were counted, was 22,273.

⁴⁴ Adonai said to Moshe, ⁴⁵ “Take the L’vi’im in place of all the firstborn among the people of Isra’el, and the cattle of the L’vi’im in place of their cattle; the L’vi’im are to belong to me, Adonai.