Numbers 3:44

44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 3:44 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:44

And the Lord spake unto Moses
After the number was taken, and gave him directions what to do upon it:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 3:44 In-Context

42 and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.
43 And all the first-born males according to 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.
44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.
46 And for the redemption of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above [the number of] the Levites,
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