Numbers 18:16 meaning and explanation
You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers 18:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking to Aaron, setting out what belongs to the priests and Levites. Every firstborn male in Israel was claimed by God, but verse 15 allows firstborn sons and the young of unclean animals to be bought back rather than given over to the sanctuary.
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