Discovery BoxNumbers 3:12 
Context3:12 “Look, 1 I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of 2 every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
Numbers 3:40
ContextThe Substitution for the Firstborn
3:40 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take 3 the number of their names.
Numbers 3:43
Context3:43 And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.
Numbers 26:5
ContextReuben
26:5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from 4 Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Numbers 33:4
Context33:4 Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them; the Lord also executed judgments on their gods.
1 tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the
2 tn Literally “in the place of.”
3 tn The verb נָשָׂא (nasa’, “take”) has here the sense of collect, take a census, or register the names.
4 tc The Hebrew text has no preposition here, but one has been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 23, 30, 31, 32.
