Numbers 3:44

44 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

Numbers 3:44 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:44

And the Lord spake unto Moses
After the number was taken, and gave him directions what to do upon it:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 3:44 In-Context

42 Moshe numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el.

43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

44 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisra'el, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.

46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el, who exceed the number of the Levites,