Números 3:41

Listen to Números 3:41
41 E para mim tomarĂĄs os levitas (eu sou o Senhor) em lugar de todos os primogĂȘnitos dos filhos de Israel, e o gado dos levitas em lugar de todos os primogĂȘnitos entre o gado de Israel.

Números 3:41 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:41

And thou shall take the Levites for me
For his service, to minister to his priests, and serve in his tabernacle:

I [am] the Lord;
who has a right to all, and can claim who he pleases for himself in a special manner, and therefore could and did take the Levites to himself:

instead of the firstborn among the children of Israel;
these he had taken to him before, and ordered to be sanctified unto him, and for whom a redemption price was paid to his priests for the support of them, and the tabernacle service, and now it was his will to make an exchange of these for the Levites:

and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstling among the
cattle of the children of Israel:
every firstling of clean cattle was the Lord's, and given to his priests, and the firstlings of unclean cattle were redeemed with a lamb, and which were given to the same; and now instead of these he requires the cattle of the Levites; not that they should be deprived of their use of them, or that they should be taken and sacrificed, but that they should be with them devoted to him, and they should possess them in his right.

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Números 3:41 In-Context

39 Todos os que foram contados dos levitas, que MoisĂ©s e ArĂŁo contaram por mandado do Senhor, segundo as suas famĂ­lias, todos os homens de um mĂȘs para cima, eram vinte e dois mil.
40 Disse mais o Senhor a MoisĂ©s: Conta todos os primogĂȘnitos dos filhos de Israel, da idade de um mĂȘs para cima, e toma o nĂșmero dos seus nomes.
41 E para mim tomarĂĄs os levitas (eu sou o Senhor) em lugar de todos os primogĂȘnitos dos filhos de Israel, e o gado dos levitas em lugar de todos os primogĂȘnitos entre o gado de Israel.
42 MoisĂ©s, pois, contou, como o Senhor lhe ordenara, todos os primogĂȘnitos entre os filhos de Israel.
43 E todos os primogĂȘnitos, pelo nĂșmero dos nomes, da idade de um mĂȘs para cima, segundo os que foram contados deles, eram vinte e dois mil duzentos e setenta e trĂȘs.
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