Mínshùjì 3:41

41 Wǒ shì Yēhéhuá . nǐ yào jiǎnxuǎn Lìwèi rén guī wǒ , daìtì Yǐsèliè rén suǒ yǒu tóushēng de , yĕ qǔ Lìwèi rén de shēngchù daìtì Yǐsèliè suǒ yǒu tóushēng de shēngchù .

Mínshùjì 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.

Mínshùjì 3:41 In-Context

39 Fán beì shǔ de Lìwèi rén , jiù shì Móxī , Yàlún zhào Yēhéhuá fēnfu suǒ shǔ de , àn zhe jia shì , cóng yī gè yuè yǐwaì de nánzǐ , gōng yǒu èr wàn èr qiā míng .

40 Yēhéhuá duì Móxī shuō , nǐ yào cóng Yǐsèliè rén zhōng shǔ diǎn yī gè yuè yǐwaì , fán tóushēng de nánzǐ , bǎ tāmende míngzi jì xià .

41 Wǒ shì Yēhéhuá . nǐ yào jiǎnxuǎn Lìwèi rén guī wǒ , daìtì Yǐsèliè rén suǒ yǒu tóushēng de , yĕ qǔ Lìwèi rén de shēngchù daìtì Yǐsèliè suǒ yǒu tóushēng de shēngchù .

42 Móxī jiù zhào Yēhéhuá suǒ fēnfu de bǎ Yǐsèliè rén tóushēng de dōu shǔ diǎn le .

43 Àn rén míng de shùmù , cóng yī gè yuè yǐwaì , fán tóushēng de nánzǐ , gōng yǒu èr wàn èr qiā èr bǎi qī shí sān míng .