redeemed

4.Mosebog 18:15
Af alt Kød, som de bringer til HERREN, saavel af Mennesker som af Dyr, skal alt, hvad der aabner Moders Liv, tilfalde dig; dog skal du lade de førstefødte Mennesker udløse, og ligeledes skal du lade de førstefødte urene Dyr udløse.

2.Mosebog 13:13
Men alt det førstefødte af Æslerne skal du udløse med et Stykke Smaakvæg, og hvis du ikke udløser det, skal du sønderbryde dets Hals; og alt det førstefødte af Mennesker blandt dine Sønner skal du udløse.

the two hundred.

22,000, and the first-born males of the Israelites were

22,273, there were therefore

372 more of the latter than of the former, which are here ordered to be redeemed. The price of redemption is fixed at five shekels, or about

15s. each, in ver

4.Mosebog 3:47
skal du tage fem Sekel for hvert Hoved, efter hellig Vægt skal du tage dem, tyve Gera paa en Sekel;

. This money, amounting to

1365 shekels, equal to F204.

15s. English, was taken of the first-born. There is some difficulty, however, in determining which of the first-born should be redeemed by paying this sum, and which should be exchanged for the Levites; for every Israelite, no doubt, would rather have his first-born redeemed by a Levite, than pay five shekels; and yet some of them must have incurred this expense. Rabbi Solomon Jarchi says, to prevent contention, Moses took

22,000 slips of parchment, and wrote on each a son of Levi, and

273 more, on which he wrote five shekels; then putting them in an urn, and shaking them together, he ordered every one of the first-born to draw out a slip. If he drew out one with the first inscription, he said to him, a Levite hath redeemed thee; but if he drew out one of the latter, he said, pay the price. This is pronounced by Dr. A. Clarke to be a stupid, silly tale; but when we know that the determination by lot was used among the Israelites, it does not seem improbable that it was now resorted to, though we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the detail. This species of redeeming men is referred to by Peter in his

1st Epistle,

4.Mosebog 1:18,19
og de kaldte hele Menigheden sammen paa den første Dag i den anden Maaned. Saa lod de sig indføre i Familielisterne efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse, ved Optælling af Navnene fra Tyveaarsalderen og opefter, Hoved for Hoved,…

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which are

4.Mosebog 3:39-43
De mønstrede af Leviterne, de, som Moses og Aron mønstrede paa HERRENS Bud efter deres Slægter, alle af Mandkøn fra en Maaned og opefter, udgjorde i alt 22 000.…