Numbers 3:44
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:44 in other translations
| BSB | Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| WEB | The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| ASV | And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
| YLT | And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, |
| DARBY | And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
| BBE | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| Webster | And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
What does Numbers 3:44 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:40-51
40-51. Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel, &c.--The principle on which the enumeration of the Levites had been made was now to be applied to the other tribes. The number of their male children, from a month old and upward, was to be reckoned, in order that a comparison might be instituted with that of the Levites, for the formal adoption of the latter as substitutes for the first-born…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 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…
Numbers 3:44 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 3:43
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.
- Numbers 3:44
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
- Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.
Numbers 3:44 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y habló Jehová á Moisés, diciendo: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et l’ Éternel parla à Moïse, disant: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: |