Numbers 3:47
To pay for these 273 males, collect five pieces of silver for each of them. Each of those pieces of silver must weigh the same as each of the silver coins that are stored in the Sacred Tent. Give this silver to Aaron and his sons.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
46There are 273 more firstborn males of the other Israeli people than of the descendants of Levi.
Cross References
Exodus 30:13Every man who is counted must pay to me ◄0.2 ounces/5.7 grams► of silver. They must use the official standard when they weigh the silver.
Leviticus 27:25All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
Ezekiel 45:12When you weigh things, you must use weights that everyone accepts as being correct [MTY].’”
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 →