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Numbers 3:50

in Numbers 3

He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money, a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

KJV

Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מֵאֵ֗תfrom with

    meetH854 →929 times

  • בְּכ֛וֹר[the] firstborn of

    bekhorH1060 →122 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לָקַ֣חhe took

    lakachH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַכָּ֑סֶףthe money

    hakasefH3701 →403 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֨הfive

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • וְשִׁשִּׁ֜יםand sixty

    veshishimH8346 →59 times

  • וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁand three

    usheloshH7969 →432 times

  • מֵא֛וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • וָאֶ֖לֶףand one thousand

    vaelefH505 →505 times

  • בְּשֶׁ֥קֶלby [the] shekel of

    beshekelH8255 →88 times

  • הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃the holy place

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Peter 1:18

    For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

    it leads to

    • Titus 2:14

      He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Corinthians 6:20

      you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

  • Through

    1 Peter 3:18

    For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 9:28

      so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

    • Hebrews 9:26

      Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by…

  • Through

    Titus 2:14

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 9:14

      how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

    • Ephesians 2:10

      For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

    • 1 Peter 2:9

      But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

  • Through

    Hebrews 9:12

    He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:4

      because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).