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

And for those that are to be redeemed
With money, there being not Levites enough to answer to them, and exchange for…

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…