Numbers 3:39

"Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death."

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

twenty and two thousand -A number on which the commutation with the firstborn of the twelve tribes dependsNumbers 3:43-46. The actual total of the male Levites is 22,300 (compareNumbers 3:22,Numbers 3:28,Numbers 3:34): and the extra 300 are considered by some to represent those who, being first-born themselves in the tribe of Levi, could not be available to redeem the first-born in other tribes. Others consider the difference due to an error in the Hebrew text. The tribe of Levi is shown by this census to have been by far the smallest of the tribes.

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