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

Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money ,
&c.] Or "for the firstborn", as the Vulgate Latin ver…

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…