Numbers 3:43

43 The total enrollment, all the firstborn males from a month old and upward, counting the number of names, was twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Numbers 3:43 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:43

And all the firstborn males
For such only were ordered to be numbered, and not firstborn females:

by the number of names;
which were particularly taken:

from a month old and upward;
for before that time they were not sanctified to the Lord, nor subject to the redemption price:

of those that were numbered of them [were] twenty and two thousand two
hundred and threescore and thirteen;
22,273 men; so that there were two hundred seventy three more than the Levites, ( Numbers 3:39 ) .

Numbers 3:43 In-Context

41 But you shall accept the Levites for me—I am the Lord—as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the livestock of the Israelites.

42 So Moses enrolled all the firstborn among the Israelites, as the Lord commanded him.

43 The total enrollment, all the firstborn males from a month old and upward, counting the number of names, was twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

44 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

45 Accept the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.