41And thou shalt take the Levites for me(I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 40-51)Here is the exchange made of the Levites for the first-born. 1. The first-born were numbered from a month old, Num. 3:42 , 43 . Those certainly were not reckoned who, though first-born, had become heads of families themselves, but those only that were under age; and the learned bishop Patrick is decidedly of opinion that none were numbered but those only that were born since their coming out of Eg...
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