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had not commirted it to thoſe : or for their good and ſerviee, and benefit ; for their preſeruation, as the word may be rendred. : 29 * All that were numbred of the Levices, which Moſes and Aaron numbred at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males, from a month old and upward, were twenty and. two
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f 0bj. Bur if the particular numbers, mentioned Verſe 22, 28, 34: be pur together, they make exaftly 22300. 4n/w. The odd 3co are omitted here, either according te the uſe of the holy Scripture, where in ſo great numbers ſmall ſums are commonly aegletied, or, becauſe they were the firſt-born -f the Levites, and therefore belonged to God already, and ſo could not be givento him again inſtead of the
other firſt-born. See Lev. 27. 26 IF, this number of firkt-born ſeem
very ſmall to come from 22000 Levites, it muſt be conſidered, that only ſuch firſt-born are here named as were males, and ſuch as con- tinued in their parents Families, not ſuch as had ereQed new families of their own. Add to this, that God ſo ordered things by his wiſe Providence for divers weighty reaſons, that this Tribe thould be much the leaſt of all the Tribes, as is evident by comparing the nembers of the other Tribes, from twenty years old, Numb. 1. with thenumber of this from a'month old ; and therefore it is not ſtrange if the number of their firſt-bora be leſs than in other Tribes. Although if the other Tribes had been computed from a month old, as this was, their number of 600000 had probably been double or treble to that, and contequently the nu 1ber of their firſt-born being 22273 verſe 43. would have been as unproportionable to their whole ſum, as this of 300 firſt-born Levites teems to their whole number. And ſome add, thar only thoſe firſt-born are numbred both 1n this and in the other Tribes, which were born ſince they cameout of Ezypt, when God challenged all the firſt-born to be his.
40 And the LORD ſaid unco Moſes, number all the firſt-born of the males of the children of Iſrael g from 2 month old aad upward, and take the number of their NAmESs.
Z That they may be compared with the number of the Levites for the reaſon here following.
41 And thou ſbalr take the Levites for me (TI am the LORD } inſtead of all the firſt-born among the children of Iſrael þ, and the cattel of the Levites 7 in ſtead of all the firitlings among the cattei of the children of Iſrael.
þ To wit, ſuch are now alive of them, byt thoſe which ſhould be born of them hereafter are orherwiſe diſfoſed. 7i Not that they were to be taken from the Levites, or to be ſacrificed to God, any more tian the Levires themſelves were, but char they rozether with the Levites were to be preſented before the Lord by way of acknow- Jedgment, that the Levites might be ſer apart for God's ſervice, and their cattel for themſelves as God's Minitters, and for their ſupport in God's Work.
42 And Moſes numbred, as the LORD commanded him, all the firſt- born among the children of Iſrael.
43 And all the firſt-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of thoſe char were numbred of them, were twenty and two thouſand twe hundred and threeſcore afid thirteen.
44 And the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying,
45 Take the Levites k& in ſtead of all the firſt-born among the children of Iſrael, and the catrel of the Levites in ſtead of their catrel, and the Levires ſhall be mine, I am the LORD.
k To wit, the 22000 reckoned up, Ycrſe 39: of which ſee the notes there,
46 And for thoſe that are te be redeemed of the two hundred and threeſcore and thirteen of the ficſt-born of the children of Iſrael, which are more than the Levites ;
47 Thou ſhalr even take five ſhekels a piece / by the.
poll, after the ſhekel of the ſanctuary ſhait thou cake them : * the ſhekel is twenty gerahs. |
I Which was the price to be paid tor the redemprion of a firſt-born a month old, Numb: 18:15, 16: but this mony though paid for theſe 273 perſons was probably paid our of the common ſtock of all, excepr lots were caſt who ſhould pay, which is not probable in lo ſmall a concern accompanied with 1o much trouble.
48 And thou ſhalt give the number wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto Aaron and to his ſons .
m To whom all the Levites were given, and therefore the mony which came in their ſtead.
49 And Moles took the redemption money, of them that were over and aboverhem that were redeemed by the Levites.:
5o Ofthe 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.
fr And Moſes gave the money of; them that were redeemed, unto Aaron and to his fons, according to the word of the LORD, as the- LORD commanded
Moſes. CHMHAF 3%:
God Commands the Levites to be numbred from 3o till 50 years old ; fi: for
the ſervice of the Tabernacle : Ther Charge, 1 - 16, Of the Kohathites, 17 ——21. Of the Gerſhonites, 22 — 28. Of the Sons of Merari, 29 =— 33- The number of each, 34——45. Ojallm|
general, 46 49.
N D the LORD ſpake unto Mofes, and ugto Aaron, ſaying, |
NUMBER 5s.
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2 Take the ſum of the ſons of Kohath from among
their fathers : | Y” BY
3 From thirty years old a and upward, even until fifty years old 6b, all that enter c into the hoſt 4, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. |