And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

And Moses took the ransom-money from them that were over and above those who were ransomed by the Levites;

And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites;

So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;

Accepit ergo Moses pecuniam redemptionis ab its qui superabant ultra redemptos Levitarum:

And Moses took the redemption money,.... Of five shekels per head:
of them that were over and above redeemed by the Levites; or were more than those redeemed by them. A Levite redeemed a firstborn, or freed him from the redemption price, being taken in lieu of him: 22,000 Levites were answerable to 22,000 firstborn of Israel; but as there were no more Levites than the above number, there remained two hundred seventy three firstborn to be redeemed by money, and it was the redemption money of these Moses took.

"The redeemed of the Levites" are the 22,000 who were redeemed by means of the Levites. In Numbers 3:50, the Chethibh הפּדים is the correct reading, and the Keri הפּדים an unnecessary emendation. The number of the first-born and that of the Levites has already been noticed in the introduction to Numbers 1.