SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:50
y recibió de los primogénitos de los hijos de Israel, en dinero, mil trescientos sesenta y cinco siclos , conforme al siclo del santuario.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 50. Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money , etc.] Or “for the firstborn”, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, and so the Hebrew particle tam is sometimes used f20 ; for children of a month old or little more could not pay the money, but their parents for them, which was paid by them, and Moses received it for the superfluous number of two hundred seventy three; but it is a matter of doubt of whom this was exacted, and by whom paid, and who could be reckoned as this superfluous number, unless they were the last two hundred seventy three that were numbered: some have thought this was paid out of the public stock, which was a ready way of doing it, but whether reasonable is not so manifest, since these firstborn were the properties of particular persons; the more commonly received method of doing it with the Jewish writers was, according to Jarchi and Abarbinel, and so in the Talmud by lot; the former of which describes the manner of doing it thus, 22,000 pieces (of paper or parchment) were brought, and on them written, “a son of Levi”, or “a Levite”, and two hundred seventy three other pieces, and on them were written, “five shekels”; these were mixed together and put into an urn or box, and then they were bid to come and take out the pieces, and according as the lot was, they were allowed as redeemed by the Levites, or paid the redemption money: and as this was a method much in use with the Hebrews, it is not improbable: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary ; 1,365 shekels, which is exactly the number of shekels that two hundred seventy three should pay, reckoning five shekels per head; which Jarchi counts thus, for two hundred firstborn, a thousand shekels; for seventy firstborn, three hundred fifty; and for three firstborn fifteen, shekels, which in all amounted to about an hundred seventy pounds of our money.
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
מאת 853 בכור 1060 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 לקח 3947 את 853 הכסף 3701 חמשׁה 2568 ושׁשׁים 8346 ושׁלשׁ 7969 מאות 3967 ואלף 505 בשׁקל 8255 הקדשׁ׃ 6944
