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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 3:43

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the firstborn males, etc.] For such only were ordered to be numbered, and not firstborn females: by the number of names; which were particularly taken: from a month old and upward; for before that time they were not sanctified to the Lord, nor subject to the redemption price: of those that were numbered of them [were] twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen; 22,273 men; so that there were two hundred seventy three more than the Levites, (<040339>Numbers 3:39).
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