Numbers 26:62
And the numbered of them were twenty-three thousand of all the males from a month old and upwards: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because no possession was given to them among the children of Israel.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
61But Nadab and Abihu died in their offering strange fire before the Lord.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47But the Levites, by the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
Numbers 3:39All who were numbered of the Levites whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered by the word of the Lord, by their families, every male, from the son of a month and upward, twenty and two thousand.
Numbers 4:48even the numbered of them were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
Numbers 18:23But the Levites shall perform the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, and shall bear their iniquity; a statute forever unto your generations. And among the sons of Israel they shall not possess an inheritance;
Numbers 35:2Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to inhabit, and a space (suburb) with the cities round about shall they give to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 14:27and the Levite who is in thy cities; thou shalt not forsake him, for he hath no portion or inheritance with thee.
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 →