Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 3:48
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
To whom all the Levites were given, and therefore the money which came in their stead.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed,…. Or the superfluous number, the number of them that exceeded the Levites, namely, two hundred seventy three; the price of their redemption is ordered to be given
unto Aaron, and to his sons; since the Levites were taken in lieu of the firstborn, whose redemption money belonged to the priests; and seeing the Levites were given to Aaron and his sons on that consideration, and there being a deficiency of them to answer to the firstborn, it was but right and just that the redemption price of the superfluous number should be paid to them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(48) And thou shalt give the money . . . The verse may be rendered thus: And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and to his sons: even the redemption money of those who are over and above amongst them.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Num 3:48. And thou shalt give the money, &c. The original rendered money, is ceseph, silver, and so it certainly should have been rendered here. Note; Though silver or gold could ransom these first-born, nothing less than the blood of Jesus Christ could redeem those firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Reciprocal: Num 3:39 – and Aaron Num 3:51 – Moses