Numbers 1:47
But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
In Context
46Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
48And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Cross References
Numbers 1:3From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.
Numbers 2:33And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.
Numbers 8:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Numbers 26:62And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.
1 Chronicles 21:6But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:45-47
44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. 45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. We have here the sum total at the foot of the account; they were in… Read the whole commentary →