[Avodah] Exchange of the Levi'im for the bechorim in last week's parsha.

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:59:48PM -0400, hankman wrote:
: I have a similar problem with the first korban Pesach of the 2nd year
: bamidbar. You have approx. 3,000,000 people who were mechuyav in the
: korban divided by however many you assume per chabura, will still leave
: you with an number in 5 or 6 digits for the number of korbanos Pesach
: plus all the Chagigos etc. But you only had 3 kohanim to do all this...

There were no qorbanos Pesach in the midbar. By the time kehunah was
taken away from the bechorim, the next time the qorban is performed is
in the days of Yehoshua at Giv'as haAralos / Gilgal (Yehoshua 5). It's
still impossible to imagine there were that many kohanim in the 2nd and
3rd generations, so that the 90,000 or so sheep would still mean many
thousands per kohein.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha