Numbers 4:18

Ye shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

19This do ye to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And God spoke to Moses, saying, Go down, and solemnly charge the people, lest at any time they draw nigh to God to gaze, and a multitude of them fall.

Exodus 30:38Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as + 30:38 Gr. to smell in it. Hebraism.to smell it, shall perish from his people.

Numbers 16:32And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.

Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and so there shall not be anger + 18:5 Gr. in.among the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And they come as far as the threshing floor of Nachor: and Oza reached forth his hand to the ark of God to keep it steady, and took hold of it; for + 6:6 Gr. the calf.the ox shook it out of its place.

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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