Numbers 3:42

42 So Moses mustered all the firstborn among the {Israelites} just as Yahweh commanded him.

Numbers 3:42 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:42

And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him
No doubt assisted by others, though not mentioned:

all the firstborn among the children of Israel;
which some think were only those that were born since they came out of Egypt, as Bonfrerius, Bishop Patrick, and others.

Numbers 3:42 In-Context

40 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Muster every firstborn male from the {Israelites} from {one month} and above and {count} their names.

41 And you will receive the Levites for me--I [am] Yahweh--in the place of all [the] firstborn among the {Israelites}, and the animals of the Levites in the place of all [the] firstborn among the animals among the {Israelites}."

42 So Moses mustered all the firstborn among the {Israelites} just as Yahweh commanded him.

43 And all [the] firstborn males among the number of names from {one month} and above, the {ones counted}, [were] twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Footnotes

• [a] Or "counted" or "summoned" or "enrolled"
• [b] Literally "sons/children of Israel"