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Numbers 3:45 KJV
Numbers · chapter 3 · verse 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.Numbers 3:45 · King James Version
Numbers 3:45 in context
43And 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.
44And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45Take 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.
46And 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;
47Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- firstbornbᵉkôwrfirstbornH1060 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- LevitesLêvîyîya Levite or descendant of LeviH3881 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- cattlebᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beastH929 →
- Takelâqachto takeH3947 →
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Here is the exchange made of the Levites for the first-born. 1. The first-born were numbered from a month old, Num 3:42, Num 3:43. Those certainly were not reckoned who, though first-born, had become heads of families themselves, but those only that were under age;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 40-51