Numbers 4:18

“Make sure the families of Kohath are not wiped out from the Levites.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17The Lord told Moses and Aaron,

19This is what you have to do so that they'll live and won't die by getting too close to something holy. Aaron and his sons must go in and tell each of them what they have to do and what they have to carry.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21and the Lord told him, “Go back down, and warn the people not to force their way across the boundary to try to come to the Lord or they will die.

Exodus 30:38Anyone who makes incense like this for themselves to enjoy will be expelled from their people.”

Numbers 16:32and the earth opened up and swallowed them and their households down, as well as everyone who was there with Korah and everything that belonged to them.

Numbers 18:5You are to carry out the responsibilities relating to the sanctuary and the altar, so that my anger will not fall on the Israelites again.

2 Samuel 6:6But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, so Uzzah reached out to stop the Ark of God from falling.

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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