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Nu 3:44 Strong Concordance And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],
  King James And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the "youngest" children of the 22,273 Num 3:43. The cattle of the Levites was doubtless taken in the gross as an equivalent for the first-born cattle of the other tribes, which of course, no less than the first-born of men, belonged to the Lord; and in future would have to be redeemed Num 18:15; Deu 15:19.
 
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19 All the firstling [01060] males [02145] that come [03205] of thy herd [01241] and of thy flock [06629] thou shalt sanctify [06942] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430]: thou shalt do no work [05647] with the firstling [01060] of thy bullock [07794], nor shear [01494] the firstling [01060] of thy sheep [06629].
15 Every thing that openeth [06363] the matrix [07358] in all flesh [01320], which they bring [07126] unto the LORD [03068], whether it be of men [0120] or beasts [0929], shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn [01060] of man [0120] shalt thou surely [06299] redeem [06299], and the firstling [01060] of unclean [02931] beasts [0929] shalt thou redeem [06299].
43 And all the firstborn [01060] males [02145] by the number [04557] of names [08034], from a month [02320] old [01121] and upward [04605], of those that were numbered [06485] of them, were twenty [06242] and two [08147] thousand [0505] two hundred [03967] and threescore and thirteen [07657] [07969].