Numbers 3:40-45

40Then the Lord said to Moses, “1Count every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and 2make a list of their names. 41And you 3shall take the Levites for Me--I am the Lord--instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel.” 42So Moses counted all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded him; 43and all the firstborn males, by the number of names from a month old and upward for their numbered men, were 422,273.

44Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 45“5Take 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.