John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 3:51

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed, etc.] That were redeemed this way, and not by Levites, as in (<040349>Numbers 3:49), but by money, paying five shekels a head: unto Aaron and his sons; to whom the Levites were given; and this money, as a recompence for the deficiency of the number of them, to answer to the firstborn exchanged for them: according to the word of the Lord; (<040348>Numbers 3:48); as the Lord commanded Moses; so did he, being a faithful servant in all things in the house of God; he did not convert it to his own use, or to any other use than to what God had appointed it.

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