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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Numbers 3:41

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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the cattle of the Levites--These, which they kept to graze on the glebes and meadows in the suburbs of their cities, to supply their families with dairy produce and animal food, were also taken as an equivalent for all the firstlings of the cattle which the Israelites at that time possessed. In consequence of this exchange the firstlings were not brought then, as afterwards, to the altar and the priests. Next: Numbers Chapter 4
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