Numbers 3:48
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Numbers 3:48 in other translations
| BSB | Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.” |
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| WEB | and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.” |
| ASV | and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
| YLT | and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.' |
| DARBY | and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed. |
| BBE | And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons. |
| Webster | And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed. |
What does Numbers 3:48 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 3:48 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 3:47
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
- Numbers 3:48
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
- Numbers 3:49
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
Numbers 3:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y darás á Aarón y á sus hijos el dinero por los rescates de los que de ellos sobran. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et tu donneras à Aaron et à ses fils l’argent de ceux qui sont rachetés, qui sont de plus que les Lévites. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Geld sollst du als Lösung der Überzähligen unter ihnen Aaron und seinen Söhnen geben. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | dabisque pecuniam Aaron et filiis ejus pretium eorum qui supra sunt. |