Numbers 4:49
Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
48Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
Numbers 2:33And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.
Numbers 4:15And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:
Numbers 4:24This is the office of the family of the Gersonites :
Numbers 4:32The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and pins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and furniture, and so shall carry them.
Numbers 4:41This is the people of the Gersonites, 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 →