Numbers 4:18

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

In Context

17And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint for them each one to his service and to his burden,

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And LORD said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Whoever shall make like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21

The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →

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