Numbers 3:43

43 All the oldest males over one month old, recorded by name according to their enrollment, were 22,273.

Numbers 3:43 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:43

And all the firstborn males
For such only were ordered to be numbered, and not firstborn females:

by the number of names;
which were particularly taken:

from a month old and upward;
for before that time they were not sanctified to the Lord, nor subject to the redemption price:

of those that were numbered of them [were] twenty and two thousand two
hundred and threescore and thirteen;
22,273 men; so that there were two hundred seventy three more than the Levites, ( Numbers 3:39 ) .

Numbers 3:43 In-Context

41 Take the Levites for me, in place of all the oldest sons of the Israelites, for I am the LORD, and the cattle of the Levites in place of all the oldest cattle of the Israelites.

42 Moses enrolled all the oldest males of the Israelites as the LORD commanded.

43 All the oldest males over one month old, recorded by name according to their enrollment, were 22,273.

44 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

45 Take the Levites in place of all the oldest Israelites and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle. The Levites are mine; I am the LORD.