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Numbers 3:46,47
The Levites number 22,000, but the first-born 22,273. The remaining 273 must therefore be redeemed by a payment of five shekels for each.
The Levites number 22,000, but the first-born 22,273. The remaining 273 must therefore be redeemed by a payment of five shekels for each.
This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the “youngest” children of the 22,273 Numbers 3:43. The cattle of the Levites was doubtless taken in th...
3. THE LEVITES AND THEIR MINISTRATIONS CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The generations of the priests (Numbers 3:1)_ 2. The tribe of Levi and their ministry (Numbers 3:5) 3. The Levites substituted for all the fir...
THE REDEMPTION BY MONEY OF THE RESIDUE OF THE FIRST-BORN._ Cf._ Numbers 3:12 f_._ Since the first-born of Israel (22,273) exceed the Levites (22,000, see Numbers 3:39), those in excess are to be redee...
REDEEMED. bought back. Hebrew. _g'aal._ See note on Exodus 6:8 MORE. over and above: 273 (= 13. 21). App-10. The firstborn males were 22,273 The Levites were 22,000. This leaves. difference of 273....
D. LEVITES DEDICATED IN BEHALF OF THE FIRSTBORN vv. 44-51 TEXT Numbers 3:44. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 45. Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, NUMBER ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF THE MALES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM A MONTH OLD AND UPWARD, AND TAKE THE NUMBER OF THEIR NAMES._ Number all the firstborn ... The princ...
THE LEVITES, THEIR DUTIES AND NUMBER Although Aaron and his family belong to the tribe of Levi (Exodus 2:1) the term 'Levites' is usually employed, as here, to denote the non-Aaronite Levites. The fam...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 AARON’S SONS – NUMBERS 3:1-4 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses on Sinai mountain. This is the family of Aaron and Mos
וְ אֵת֙ פְּדוּיֵ֣י הַ שְּׁלֹשָׁ֔ה וְ הַ
2. THE FIRST-BORN Numbers 3:11; Numbers 3:40 These two passages supplement each other and may be taken together. Jehovah claims the first-born in Israel. He hallowed them unto Himself on the day when...
The account of the arrangements for the service of the Levites is fully and carefully given in this and the following chapter. In the rites are certain matters of principle which are of permanent valu...
_Levites, omitting the 300, as ver. 39. For each of these 273, five sicles were to be paid, the price of the redemption of a child who had been vowed, Leviticus xxvii. 6. The money was to be paid eith...
The sum here appointed, amounted in value to about 2 shillings and 3 pence halfpenny of our current coin....
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
In chapter 3 we have the Levites set apart, according to the thoughts of God, for service. They are a figure of the church, or rather of the members of the church in their service, even as the priests...
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 C...
_For those that are to be redeemed_ It is probable, in the exchange they began with the eldest of the firstborn, and so downward, so that those were to be redeemed who were the two hundred and seventy...
[THE LEUITES ARE NUMBRED.] 1 The sonnes of Aaron. 5 The Leuites are giuen to the Priests for the seruice of the Tabernacle, 11 in stead of the first borne. 14 The Leuites are numbred by their fami...
FINAL REGULATIONS...
And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;...
THE SONS OF AARON (vs.1-4) Aaron was the high priest, and in Israel a natural succession was practiced, as is not true in the Church of God today In fact, a special priesthood is not scriptural now,...
40-51 The number of the first-born, and that of the Levites, came near to each other. Known unto God are all his works beforehand; there is an exact proportion between them, and so it will appear, wh...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Numbers 4:1-49. What a marvellous spectacle was the camp of Israel, in that waste howling wilderness! What a spectacle to angels, to men, and to devils! God's eye ever rested upon it. His presence was...
Numbers 3:46 redemption H6302 hundred H3967 seventy-three H7657 H7969 firstborn H1060 children H1121 Israel H3478 more H5
VII). THE MAKE-UP OF THE LEVITES AND THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN (NUMBERS 3:39). Numbers 3:39 ‘All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahw...
CONTENTS: Order of the host; placing of the Levites. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Having gifts differing according to the Grace given us if ministry, let us wait on our ministering (Ro...
Numbers 3:9. _Thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron._ God has a sovereign right to choose and call his own ministers. The service of the tabernacle would be better done by a separate tribe professional...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 3:1__ The two censuses of Levites count different groups. The first (Numbers 3:1) counts every male Levite over one month old. The male Levites took the place of the firstborn...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 3:46 The census showed that there were 273 fewer LEVITES than FIRSTBORN males in the other tribes. To redeem these 273 Israelites who had no Levite to take t
Critical Notes.—“Muster of the Tribe of Levi. As Jacob had adopted the two sons of Joseph as his own sons, and thus promoted them to the rank of heads of tribes, the tribe of Levi founded, strictly sp...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBERS AND DUTIES OF THE LEVITES; THEIR SUBSTITUTION FOR THE FIRSTBORN (Numbers 3:1)....
Now in chapter three, God had Moses set out the tribe of Levi into three major families: the family of Gershon, the family of Kohath and Merari. And so the Levites were divided into the three major fa...
Exodus 13:13; Numbers 18:15; Numbers 3:39...
For those that are to be redeemed — 'Tis probable, in the exchange they began with the eldest of the first — born, and so downwards, so that those were to be redeemed, who were the two hundred, sevent...