Numbers 4:2

Take the reckoning of the Beni Kehath from among the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

In Context

1And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying:

3From thirty years and upward, unto fifty years; all that come to the host, to do the work of the tabernacle of ordinance.

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Cross References

Numbers 3:27And of Kehath was the family of Amram, and the family of Izhar, and the family or Hebron, and the family of Uzziel: these are the families of Kehath.

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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