Numbers 26:62
And their numbered ones are twenty-three thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, because an inheritance has not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.
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61and Nadab dies—Abihu also—in their bringing strange fire near before YHWH.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,
Numbers 3:39All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered—Aaron also—by the command of YHWH, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, [are] twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 4:48even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty;
Numbers 18:23and the Levites have done the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they bear their iniquity; [it is] a continuous statute throughout your generations that they have no inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel;
Numbers 35:2“Command the sons of Israel, and they have given to the Levites cities to inhabit from the inheritance of their possession; you also give [the] outskirt around them, of the cities, to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 14:27As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:58-63
57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. 59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt:… Read the whole commentary →