NET Bible
"So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him."
— Numbers 3:42, NET Bible
“And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.”
“And Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel. ”
“Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.”
“Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:”
“So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.”
“And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.”
All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the LORD, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
The Substitution for the Firstborn Then the LORD said to Moses,“Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
And 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.”
So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.
And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
“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.