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Numbers 1:47 KJV
Numbers · chapter 1 · verse 47
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.Numbers 1:47 · King James Version
Numbers 1:47 in context
45So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
46Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
48For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
49Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- numberedpâqadto visitH6485 →
- LevitesLêvîyîya Levite or descendant of LeviH3881 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- tribemaṭṭeha branchH4294 →
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Care is here taken to distinguish from the rest of the tribes the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself, Exo 32:26. Note, Singular services shall be recompensed with singular honours. Now, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 47-54