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This result, when compared with the number of male adults (603,550, compare to Numbers 2:32), is small, as the usual proportion of firstborn sons t…

Twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. —The extremely small number of firstborn in proportion to a male population of …

And all the firstborn males
For such only were ordered to be numbered, and not firstborn females:

The number of the firstborn, and that of the Levites, were close to each other. Known to God are all His works beforehand; there is an exact propor…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes