John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 18:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And those that are to be redeemed, etc.] Which is to be understood not of unclean beasts last mentioned, for they were redeemed with lambs and not with money; and after they were eight days and not a month old, as follows, (<021313>Exodus 13:13 22:30); but of the firstborn of men: from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation: that is, take the redemption money next mentioned; and though both time and price are fixed, yet said to be according to the estimation of the priest; (see <032705> Leviticus 27:5,6); for the money of five shekels; which was about eleven or twelve shillings of our money, and is the price given for the redemption of the firstborn, when the Levites were taken in their stead, (<040347>Numbers 3:47); after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs, (see Gill on “<040347>Numbers 3:47”); of the manner of redeeming the firstborn, (see Gill on “<021315>Exodus 13:15”).

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