Numbers 4:18

“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be cut off from among the Levites.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

19In order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”

Numbers 16:32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

Numbers 18:5And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

2 Samuel 6:6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had 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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