Numbers 3:43

43 The number of firstborn sons who were one month old or older was 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 The Levites must be reserved for me as substitutes for the firstborn sons of Israel; I am the LORD . And the Levites’ livestock must be reserved for me as substitutes for the firstborn livestock of the whole nation of Israel.”

42 So Moses counted the firstborn sons of the people of Israel, just as the LORD had commanded.

43 The number of firstborn sons who were one month old or older was 22,273.

44 Then the LORD said to Moses,

45 “Take the Levites as substitutes for the firstborn sons of the people of Israel. And take the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for the firstborn livestock of the people of Israel. The Levites belong to me; I am the LORD .