Graphic Bible · Scene 10 of 11
Numbers 3:44-48
The redemption price commanded
The Levites and the firstborn · Numbers 3
Story guide: Moses receives the instructions for the redemption price.
Open this scene in the reader →44And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
45Take the Levites in place of every firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
46And for the redemption price of the 273 who exceed the Levites from among the firstborn of the sons of Israel,
47you shall take five shekels apiece, by the shekel of the sanctuary; the shekel is twenty gerahs.
48And you shall give the silver to Aaron and to his sons as the redemption price for those among them who are in excess.
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