Numbers 4:18

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

19but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.'

Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charge of the holy things, and the charge of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.

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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