Numbers 26:62
And 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
61Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before the Lord.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
Numbers 3:39All the Levites, that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 4:48Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
Numbers 18:23But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing,
Numbers 35:2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,
Deuteronomy 14:27And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:58-63
57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. 59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt:… Read the whole commentary →