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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 3:22

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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from a month old: The males of all the other tribes were numbered from twenty years old and upwards; but, had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the first-born of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as there must have been first-born of all ages in the other tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be their substitutes, should also be of all ages; and it appears to have been partly on this ground, that the Levites were numbered from a month old and upwards. Num 4:38-40 Numbers 3:23
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