| Numbers 3:46
| But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the first-born of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,
| Levites, omitting the 300, as [in] ver. 39. For each of these 273, five sicles were to be paid, the price of the redemption of a child who had been vowed, Leviticus 27:6. The money was to be paid either by those who were counted last, or by a tax laid upon all the people, or it was determined by lot who should pay it. The Scripture is silent on this head. (Calmet)
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