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All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
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The Case of the Missing 300
Multiple commentators point out a numerical discrepancy: the individual Levite families total 22,300, but the official count is 22,000. The most common explanation is that the 300 uncounted men were firstborn Levites themselves. Since they already belonged to God as firstborns, they could not be used to 'redeem' the firstborns of other tribes, demonstrating God's precise and purposeful accounting.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
twenty-two thousand - A number on which the commutation with the firstborn of the twelve tribes depends (Numbers 3:43–46). The a…
19th Century
Anglican
And Aaron ... — In the Hebrew text, the word Aaron has certain marks over it, known as puncta extraordinaria, denoting th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron , numbered at the commandment of the Lord, …
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The Levites were in three classes according to the sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari—and these were subdivided into families. The descendant…
