Numbers 4:49
Moses took a census of them, according to the word of the Lord, each one according to their office and their burdens, just as the Lord had instructed him.
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48were together eight thousand five hundred eighty.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
Numbers 2:33But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel. For so the Lord had instructed Moses.
Numbers 4:15And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped the Sanctuary and its vessels at the dismantling of the camp, then the sons of Kohath shall enter, so as to carry what has been wrapped. And they shall not touch the vessels of the Sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Kohath concerning the tabernacle of the covenant.
Numbers 4:24This is the duty of the family of the Gershonites:
Numbers 4:32also the columns surrounding the atrium, with their bases and tent pegs and cords. They shall accept by number all the vessels and articles, and so shall they carry them.
Numbers 4:41This is the people of the Gershonites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:35-49
34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: 36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. 37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the… Read the whole commentary →