Numbers 3:41-45

41And take the Levites for me – I am the Lord – instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”

42So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

43And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

44Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord.