Graphic Bible · Scene 9 of 11
Numbers 3:40-43
The firstborn counted
The Levites and the firstborn · Numbers 3
Story guide: Moses counts the firstborn males among Israel’s families.
Open this scene in the reader →40Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Count every firstborn male among the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.”
41And you shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—in place of every firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of every firstborn among the livestock of the sons of Israel.
42So Moses counted every firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded him.
43And all the firstborn males, by the number of names, from a month old and upward, according to their count, were twenty-two thousand, three hundred seventy-three.
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