This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the “youngest” children of the 22,273 ([Reference …

Redeemed by the Levites. —that is, who were redeemed by the substitution of the Levites in their place.

And Moses took the redemption money
Of five shekels per head:

of them that were over and above re…

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…