Numbers 3:48
Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
49So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:41-51
40 And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the Lord ) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 And all the firstborn males by the… Read the whole commentary →