45 (A)Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am the Lord. 46 (B)And as [a]a redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess of the number of the Levites, 47 you shall take (C)five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in (D)terms of the shekel of the sanctuary ((E)the shekel is twenty [b]gerahs),

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:46 Or ransom
  2. Numbers 3:47 A gerah is about 0.025 oz. or 0.7 gm

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