Numbers 3:22
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| Overview - Numbers 3 | |
| 1 | The sons of Aaron. |
| 5 | The Levites are given to the priests instead of the first-born; |
| 14 | are numbered by their families. |
| 21 | The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites; |
| 27 | of the Kohathites; |
| 33 | of the Merarites. |
| 38 | The place and charge of Moses and Aaron. |
| 40 | The first-born are freed by the Levites. |
| 44 | The overplus are redeemed. |
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Numbers 3:22 (King James Version)
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
- from a month old
- The males of all the other tribes were numbered from twenty years old and upwards; but, had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the first-born of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as there must have been first-born of all ages in the other tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be their substitutes, should also be of all ages; and it appears to have been partly on this ground, that the Levites were numbered from a month old and upwards.
- 4:38-40