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Background: Originally the firstborn served at the
sacrifices. When the Jews sinned by the Golden calf God took this
privilege away from them and gave it to the Levites. The process
of transfer of responsibility from the firstborn to the Levites
was called a redemption process. The redemption process is described
in the table below. Because this aspect of the Bible involves computations
and spreadsheets we classify this Rashi as non-verse/spreadsheets.
Very roughly there are 3 types of redemption:
- The 300 Levites that were firstborn remained in service
- There was an exchange of 22000 Levites for 22000 Firstborn
- The remaining 273 non Levite firstborn were redeeemed at
$5 shekel per person or $1,365 aggregate.
There was the further problem of who to collect the $1,365 from.
After all each particular firstborn could claim he corresponded
to an actual Levite and didn't have to pay. Therefore the
redemption was done by lottery which picked 273 firstborn each
of whom paid $5 shekel.
Item |
Amount |
Justification (Verse/logic) |
Gershon Levites
| 7500
| Nu03-22
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Kehath Levites
| 8600
| Nu03-28
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Merari Levites
| 6200
| Nu03-34
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Total Levites
| 22,300
| Nu03-17
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Firstborn Levites
| 300
| Logic
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Remaining Levites
| 22,000
| Subtraction
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Firstborn redeemed by Levites
| 22,000
| Logic
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Total Firstborn
| 22,273
| Nu03-43
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Remaining non Levite Firstborn
| 273
| Nu03-46
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Redemption of remaining non Levite Firstborn
| 1,365=273 x 5
| Nu03-47
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Advanced Rashi: Rashi also mentions the 20 silver
price by which Joseph was sold. We will discuss this aspect of Rashi
in a later year.
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