Numbers 4:18

Cut ye not off the shevet (tribe) of the mishpekhot of the Kehati from among the Levi'im;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And Hashem spoke unto Moshe and unto Aharon saying,

19But this do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto kodesh hakodashim (the most holy things): Aharon and his banim shall go in, and appoint them every one to his avodah (service, ministry) and to his massa (burden);

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And Hashem said unto Moshe, Go down, warn HaAm, lest they push through toward Hashem to gaze, and many of them fall perishing.

Exodus 30:38Whosoever shall make its like, to smell it, shall even be cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:32And ha'aretz opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, their batim (houses), all the men that were of Korach, and all their possessions.

Numbers 18:5And ye shall stand guard of HaKodesh, and stand guard of the Mizbe'ach; that there be no Ketzef (Wrath) any more upon the Bnei Yisroel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to goren Nakhon, Uzza reached forth to the Aron HaElohim, and took hold of it; for the ox tilted it.

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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