Numbers 3:13

¹¹  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

¹²  And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

¹³  Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.

¹⁴  And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵  Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.