Numbers 4:18

Cut not off the tribe of the family of Kehath from among the Levites;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying:

19But do this to them, that they may live and not die, in their approach to the Holy of Holies: Let Aharon and his sons go in, and appoint each man his service and his burden.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall.

Exodus 30:38The man who maketh the like of it, to smell thereto, shall be destroyed from his people.

Numbers 16:32and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and the men of their houses; and all the men of Korach, and all their substance,

Numbers 18:5And they shall keep charge of the sanctuary and of the altar, that there may be no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.

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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