Numbers 3:46

And for those that are to be redeemed , &c.; With money, there being not Levites enough to answer to them, and exchange for them:

of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites ; for the sum total of the Levites, as given, was but 22,000, Numbers 3:39 , whereas the sum total of the firstborn of Israel were 22,273, Numbers 3:43 , so that there were, two hundred seventy three more of the latter than of the former; and what was to be done with these next follows.