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Numbers 3:15 KJV
Numbers · chapter 3 · verse 15
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.Numbers 3:15 · King James Version
Numbers 3:15 in context
13Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
14And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
16And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
17And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- familiesmishpâchâha familyH4940 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- Numberpâqadto visitH6485 →
- upwardmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
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The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num 3:15.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-39