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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 3:39 — All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.
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and Aaron
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"The word [w'hrn] weäharon, and ""Aaron,"" has a point over each of its letters, probably designed as a mark of spuriousness. The word is wanting in the Samaritan, Syriac, and Coptic, and also in eight of Dr. Kennicott's and in four of De Rossi's MSS. Moses alone, as Houbigant observes, was commanded to number the Levites, (Num 3:5, 11, 40, 44, 51:) for as the money with which the first-born were redeemed was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, (Num 3:48,) it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself. twenty and two thousand. This total does not agree with the particulars; for the Gershonites were 7,500, the Kohathites 8,600, and the Merarites 6,200, which make a total of 22,300. Several methods of solving this difficulty have been proposed by learned men. Houbigant supposes there is an error in the enumeration of the Kohathites in Num 3:28; the numeral shesh, ""six,"" being written instead of shalosh, ""three,"" bef" |
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Num 3:5 |
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Num 3:11 |
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Num 3:40 |
And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. |
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Num 3:44 |
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Num 3:51 |
And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
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Num 3:48 |
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
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Num 3:28 |
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Numbers 3:39," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Num/3/39.html>.
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