* from a month old.
The males of all the other tribes were numbered from twenty
years old and upwards; but, had the Levites been numbered in
this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to
the first-born of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as
there must have been first-born of all ages in the other
tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be
their substitutes, should also be of all ages; and it appears
to have been partly on this ground, that the Levites were
numbered from a month old and upwards.
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