Numbers 1:47
However, the Levites were not registered with the others according to their tribe and families.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
In Context
46The sum total of those registered was 603,550.
48This was because the Lord had told Moses,
Cross References
Numbers 1:3Those aged twenty or older who can do military service are to be registered by you and Aaron in their Israelite army divisions.
Numbers 2:33However, the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, following the Lord's instructions to Moses.
Numbers 8:1The Lord told Moses,
Numbers 26:62The number of the Levites censused totaled 23,000. This included every male one month old or older. However, they were not counted with the other Israelites, because no land allotment was given to them with the other Israelites.
1 Chronicles 21:6However, Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the census total, because he disagreed with what the king had ordered.
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 →