Numbers 3 - 4
I want to look at two chapters today, chapters 3 and 4. They go together. There are a couple of things I see in these two chapters. The first thing to see when reading these chapters is the counting of the Levites and the counting of the first born males of all the Israelites. When counting the Levites we see that every male was to be counted from 1 month old up. The total was 22,000 males in the tribe of Levi. Now the count of the First born males came to 22,273. The purpose of this count was that the Levite males were to be the substitute for all the first born males in Israel. It was a one for one substitute. The extra 273 males were bought back at a cost of 2 ounces of silver per male. This totaled 34 pounds of silver. The Levites were to work for Aaron and care for the tent of meetings. Notice that the Levites are descendants of Aaron and Moses. Aaron’s sons were specifically set aside to be the priests. If you recall and we are reminded here that Aaron’s two oldest sons were ...