Numbers 3:44

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 3:44 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:44

And the Lord spake unto Moses
After the number was taken, and gave him directions what to do upon it:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 3:44 In-Context

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,

45 "Receive the Levites in the place of all [the] firstborn among the {Israelites}, and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I [am] Yahweh.

46 And the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the {Israelites} who are excessive over the Levites,