Numbers 4:18

Ye shall not cut off the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

19but this shall ye do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they draw near unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, testify to the people that they break not through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Whoever maketh like unto it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his peoples.

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

Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there come no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah reached after the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen had 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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