Numbers 4:18

Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

19But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

Exodus 30:38Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:32And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

Numbers 18:5You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.

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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