Numbers 3:43 The total number of firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The total number of firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.

English Standard Version
And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.

New American Standard Bible
and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273.

King James Bible
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The total number of the firstborn males one month old or more listed by name was 22,273.

International Standard Version
All the first-born males according to the list of their names from a month old and above numbered 22,273.

American Standard Version
And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

Darby Bible Translation
And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, according to their numbering, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:40-51 The number of the first-born, and that of the Levites, came near to each other. Known unto God are all his works beforehand; there is an exact proportion between them, and so it will appear, when they are compared together. The small number of first-born, over and above the number of the Levites, were to be redeemed, and the redemption-money given to Aaron. The church is called the church of the first-born, which is redeemed, not as they were, with silver and gold; but, being devoted by sin to the justice of God, is ransomed with the precious blood of the Son of God. All men are the Lord's by creation, and all true christians are his by redemption. Each should know his own post and duty; nor can any service required by such a Master be rightly accounted mean or hard.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

41. the cattle of the Levites—These, which they kept to graze on the glebes and meadows in the suburbs of their cities, to supply their families with dairy produce and animal food, were also taken as an equivalent for all the firstlings of the cattle which the Israelites at that time possessed. In consequence of this exchange the firstlings were not brought then, as afterwards, to the altar and the priests.