^{45 Ref} "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

^{46 Ref} For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,

^{47 Ref} you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

⁴⁸ and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."

⁴⁹ Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

^{50 Ref} from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

^{51 Ref} and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.