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Numbers 3:42

Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

  • KJV King James Version

    And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the firstborn males,.... For such only were…

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:

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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, Num 3:39.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 all the firstborn people
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