Numbers 4:18

“You do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19but do this for them, and they have lived and do not die in their drawing near [to] the Holy of Holies: Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and to his burden,

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And YHWH says to Moses, “Go down, protest to the people, lest they break through to YHWH to see, and many of them have fallen;

Exodus 30:38a man who makes [any] like it—to be refreshed by it—has even been cut off from his people.”

Numbers 16:32and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them, and their houses, and all the men who [are] for Korah, and all the goods,

Numbers 18:5and you have kept the charge of the holy place and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And they come to the threshing-floor of Nachon, and Uzzah puts forth [his hand] to the Ark of God, and lays hold on it, for they released the oxen;

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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