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Numbers 3:46
For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
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Numbers 3:46 in other translations
And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
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In context
43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
44 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.
46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
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