OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 3:34

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34

Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

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+ 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.

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