“The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 3 contains 51 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.