Numbers 3:48 Give the money for the redemption of the additional Israelites to Aaron and his sons."

◄ Numbers 3:48 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Give the money for the redemption of the additional Israelites to Aaron and his sons."

English Standard Version
and give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are over.”

New American Standard Bible
and give the money, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to his sons."

King James Bible
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are in excess among the Israelites."

International Standard Version
Then give the money meant for ransom of their excess to Aaron and his sons."

American Standard Version
and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.

Darby Bible Translation
and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'

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.