Numeri 3:49

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Tulit igitur Moyses pecuniam eorum, qui fuerant amplius, et quos redemerant a Levitis,

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Tulit igitur Moyses pecuniam eorum, qui fuerant amplius, et quos redemerant a Levitis,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Tulit igitur Moyses pecuniam eorum, qui excesserant numerum eorum, qui redempti erant a Levitis;

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses took the redemption money,.... Of five shekels per head:

of them that were over and above redeemed by the Levites; or were more than those redeemed by them. A Levite redeemed a firstborn, or freed him from the redemption price, being taken in lieu of him: 22,000 Levites were answerable to 22,000 firstborn of Israel; but as there were no more Levites than the above number, there remained two hundred seventy three firstborn to be redeemed by money, and it was the redemption money of these Moses took.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the “youngest” children of the 22,273 Numbers 3:43. The cattle of the Levites was doubtless taken in the gross as an equivalent for the first-born cattle of the other tribes, which of course, no less than the first-born of men, belonged to the Lord; and in future would have to be redeemed Numbers 18:15; Deuteronomy 15:19.