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Numbers 3:1
英文原文
The "generations" (see Genesis 2:4) now given, though entitled those of Aaron and Moses (Aaron standing first as the older brother), are those of Aaron only. The personal dignity of Moses, though it gave him rank as at the head of his tribe, was not hereditary. He had, and desired to have Numbers 14:12; Exodus 32:10, no successor in his office but the distant prophet like unto himself Deuteronomy 18:18. Aaron was the ancestor of a regular succession of priests.
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Numbers 3:3
「他所分別為聖的」——即摩西所分別為聖的人；或如頁邊註按字面所言，是藉著把職分授予他們而「充滿了他們的手」的人（Leviticus 8:1 ff）。
英文原文
whom he consecrated - i. e. whom Moses consecrated, or literally as in the margin, whose "hand he filled," by conferring their office upon them (Leviticus 8:1 ff).
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Numbers 3:7
「守他的職任」——意即協助他，使他和會眾所當盡的本分得以履行。
英文原文
keep his charge - i. e. so assist him that the obligations incumbent on him and on the congregation may be fulfilled.
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Numbers 3:13
末尾的話最好譯作：「他們必屬我，屬我耶和華。」關於頭生的，見 Numbers 3:43-51 的註釋。
英文原文
The concluding words are better expressed thus: "Mine shall they be, Mine, the Lord's." On the subject of the firstborn see the notes at Numbers 3:43-51.
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Numbers 3:26
「繩子……其一切使用之物」——這是指屬於會幕的，而不是院子帷子的；因為帷子與其繩子及一切配件，都在米拉利子孫的職守之下（Numbers 3:36-37）。會幕則由革順子孫看管。
英文原文
the cords ... the service thereof - i. e. of the tabernacle, not of the hangings of the court, for these, with their cords and other fittings, belonged to the charge of the Merarites Numbers 3:36-37. The tabernacle was under the care of the Gershonites.
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Numbers 3:27
在利未人中，哥轄子孫是摩西和亞倫的親族，人數最多，並且受託最緊要的職守，即看管約櫃、祭壇，以及一般而言特別神聖的器物。
英文原文
Of the Levites, the Kohathites, the kinsmen of Moses and Aaron, and the most numerous, have the most important charge confided to them, namely, that of the ark, the altars, and the more especially sacred furniture generally.
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Numbers 3:39
「二萬二千」——與十二支派長子相交換的代贖，有賴於這個數目（Numbers 3:43-46）。利未男丁的實際總數是二萬二千三百（對照 Numbers 3:22、Numbers 3:28、Numbers 3:34）：有人認為多出來的三百人，代表那些在利未支派中自己也是頭生的、因而不能用來代贖其他支派長子的人；另有些人則認為這差異出於希伯來文文本的錯誤。
這次人口統計表明，利未支派在眾支派中，遠比其他支派為小。
英文原文
twenty and two thousand - A number on which the commutation with the firstborn of the twelve tribes depends Numbers 3:43-46. The actual total of the male Levites is 22,300 (compare Numbers 3:22, Numbers 3:28, Numbers 3:34): and the extra 300 are considered by some to represent those who, being first-born themselves in the tribe of Levi, could not be available to redeem the first-born in other tribes. Others consider the difference due to an error in the Hebrew text.
The tribe of Levi is shown by this census to have been by far the smallest of the tribes.
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Numbers 3:43
這個數目與成年男子的總數（六十萬三千五百五十，對照 Numbers 2:32）相比是小的，因為頭生兒子佔男性總人口的比例通常約為四分之一；對此提出的解釋是：Exodus 13:1-2 的律法只規定奉獻那些「從那時以後」才成為頭生的。
另一方面，作為二百萬人在一年之內所生的數目，這數字又非常之大；必須承認，其中必有若干不尋常的原因在起作用。即使不提神的賜福，這原因也可以在出埃及之後隨即出現的民族活力之突然迸發中找到。在那事件以前，百姓悲慘的境況，尤其是滅殺他們頭生子的殘忍命令，必曾大大抑制嫁娶與生育的比例；而當這抑制一經除去，這比例自然便呈現突然而顯著的增長。
英文原文
This result, when compared with the number of male adults (603,550, compare Numbers 2:32), is small, the usual proportion of first-born sons to a total male population being about one in four: and the explanation offered is that the law of Exodus 13:1-2, prescribed a dedication of those only who should be firstborn "thenceforward".
On the other hand, the number is very large to be born among two millions of persons in a single year; and it must be admitted, that some unusual causes must have been concerned. Such, not to mention the divine blessing, may be found in the sudden development of national energies which would immediately ensue on the Exodus. Before that event, the miserable estate of the people, and especially the inhuman order for the destruction of their first-born, would check very seriously the ratio of marriages and births; and this ratio would naturally, when the check was removed, exhibit a sudden and striking increase.
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Numbers 3:44
這些贖銀（見旁註所列的參考經文）大概是向那二萬二千二百七十三人（Numbers 3:43）中「最年幼」孩子的父母徵收的。利未人的牲畜無疑是按總數一併收取，作為其他支派頭生牲畜的抵償；這些牲畜與人的頭生者一樣，本當然屬於耶和華，此後便須加以贖回（Numbers 18:15；Deuteronomy 15:19）。
英文原文
This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the "youngest" children of the 22,273 Numbers 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 Numbers 18:15; Deuteronomy 15:19.
這裡所載的「後代」(見 Genesis 2:4),雖然題為亞倫和摩西的後代(亞倫身為兄長而居首),實際上只是亞倫的後代。摩西個人的尊榮雖然使他居於本支派之首的地位,卻不是世襲的。在他的職分上,他沒有、也不期望有繼任者(Numbers 14:12;Exodus 32:10),惟有遙遠將來那位像他的先知而已(Deuteronomy 18:18)。亞倫則是祭司正統世系的先祖。