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Numbers 3:50 KJV
Numbers · chapter 3 · verse 50
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:Numbers 3:50 · King James Version
Numbers 3:50 in context
48And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
49And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
50Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
51And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- threescoreshishshîymsixtyH8346 →
- firstbornbᵉkôwrfirstbornH1060 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- thousandʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
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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