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Because the number of firstborn exceeded the number of Levites, a redemption price was collected for the surplus. The set amount was five shekels per person, given to Aaron and his sons. See Numbers 3:46–51.
46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that are over and above [the number of] the Levites,
47you shall take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
48and you shall give the money, with which the odd number of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.
49Moses took the redemption-money from those who were over and above those who were redeemed by the Levites;
50from the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary:
51and Moses gave the redemption-money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.