44 even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
Even those that were numbered of them after their families,.... See Gill on Numbers 4:34.
Three thousand - Here appears the wisdom of Divine Providence, that whereas in the Kohathites and Gershonites, whose burdens were fewer and easier, there were but about a third part of them fit for service; the Merarites, whose burdens were more and heavier, had above half of them fit for this work.
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