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Numbers 3:47

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Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

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  1. Numbers 3:45

    Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.

  2. Numbers 3:46

    And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;

  3. Numbers 3:48

    And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

  4. Numbers 3:49

    And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

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