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Numbers 3:42

Numbers 3:42
And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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:

from a month old and upward; for…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Numbers 3:40-51

Here is the exchange made of the Levites for the first-born. 1. The first-born were numbered from a month old, Num 3:42, Num 3:43. Those certainly were not reckoned who, though first-born, had become…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Numbers 3:40-51

The substitution of the Levites for the first-born.