OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 3:15

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“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

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Verse 15. Month; at which time the first-born were to be redeemed. Calmet. 18:16. Menochius.—If only those of 20 years of age had been counted, they could not have amounted to nearly an equal number with the first-born of all the other tribes. Calmet.

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