SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:41
Y tomarás a los levitas para mí, (yo soy el SEÑOR), en lugar de todos los primogénitos de los hijos de Israel; y los animales de los levitas en lugar de todos los primogénitos de los animales de los hijos de Israel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 41. And thou shall take the Levites for me , etc.] For his service, to minister to his priests, and serve in his tabernacle: I [am] the Lord ; who has a right to all, and can claim who he pleases for himself in a special manner, and therefore could and did take the Levites to himself: instead of the firstborn among the children of Israel ; these he had taken to him before, and ordered to be sanctified unto him, and for whom a redemption price was paid to his priests for the support of them, and the tabernacle service, and now it was his will to make an exchange of these for the Levites: and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstling among the cattle of the children of Israel : every firstling of clean cattle was the Lord’s, and given to his priests, and the firstlings of unclean cattle were redeemed with a lamb, and which were given to the same; and now instead of these he requires the cattle of the Levites; not that they should be deprived of their use of them, or that they should be taken and sacrificed, but that they should be with them devoted to him, and they should possess them in his right.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 40-51 - The number of the first-born, and that of the Levites, came near to each other. Known unto God are all his works beforehand; there is a exact proportion between them, and so it will appear, when they ar compared together. The small number of first-born, over and above the number of the Levites, were to be redeemed, and the redemption-mone given to Aaron. The church is called the church of the first-born which is redeemed, not as they were, with silver and gold; but, being devoted by sin to the justice of God, is ransomed with the preciou blood of the Son of God. All men are the Lord's by creation, and all true christians are his by redemption. Each should know his own pos and duty; nor can any service required by such a Master be rightl accounted mean or hard __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולקחת 3947 את 853 הלוים 3881 לי אני 589 יהוה 3068 תחת 8478 כל 3605 בכר 1060 בבני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 ואת 853 בהמת 929 הלוים 3881 תחת 8478 כל 3605 בכור 1060 בבהמת 929 בני 1121 ישׂראל׃ 3478
