And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

They ¹  were both righteous in the sight of God, following ²  all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly. ³ 

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. ¹ 

For you have said, ‘My teaching ¹  is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

The righteous see their destruction ¹  and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, ²  saying,

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world ¹ 

so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. ¹ 

He was a descendant of Perez; he was in charge of all the army officers for the first month.

“Is ¹  a mortal man ²  righteous ³  before ⁴  God? Or a man pure ⁵  before his Creator? ⁶ 

Although I am innocent, ¹  my mouth ²  would condemn me; ³  although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse. ⁴ 

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

for while ¹  my spirit ²  is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

¹ ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean ²  and have no iniquity.

A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation ¹  by a fool is more burdensome ²  than the two of them.

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game ¹  for me.

You are to make its pots for the ashes, ¹  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ²  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ³  its utensils of bronze.

the conversion value of the male ¹  from twenty years old up to sixty years old ²  is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. ³ 

From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.