Numbers 3:44 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 3:44

Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the “youngest” children of the 22,273 Num 3:43. The cattle of the Levites was doubtless taken in the gross as an equivalent for the first-born cattle of the other tribes, which of course, no less than the first-born of men, belonged to the Lord; and in future would have to be redeemed Num 18:15; Deu 15:19.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The excess of the general over the Levitical first-born is so small, that the only way of accounting for it is, by supposing those first-born only were counted as were males remaining in their parents' household, or that those first-born only were numbered which had been born since the departure from Egypt, when God claimed all the first-born as his special property.

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר	vay.da.Ber	and he spoke	H1696 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מֹשֶׁ֥ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
לֵּאמֹֽר׃	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →

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