The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: firstborn among the children of Israel.
NUM 3:43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty
and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
NUM 3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 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.
NUM 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;
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