Numbers 3:48 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 3:48

Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

KJV

And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

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Commentary

1 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

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנָתַתָּ֣ה	ve.na.ta.Tah	and you will give	H5414 →
הַכֶּ֔סֶף	ha.Ke.sef	the money	H3701 →
לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן	le.'a.ha.Ron	to Aaron	H175 →
וּלְבָנָ֑יו	u.le.va.Nav	and to sons his	H1121 →
פְּדוּיֵ֕י	pe.du.Yei	[the] ransom<s> of	H6302 →
הָעֹדְפִ֖ים	ha.'o.de.Fim	those [who] are in excess	H5736 →
בָּהֶֽם׃	ba.Hem	among <the> them

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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