Numbers 4:18
“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites [Descendants of United with];
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In The King James Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
In Context
17Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying,
Cross References
Exodus 19:21Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Adonai to gaze, and many of them perish.
Exodus 30:38Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
Numbers 16:32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korach [Bald one, Frost]’s men, and all their goods.
Numbers 18:5+ 18:5. Num 18:5 (Num 18:1-7, 18:20-24) (#2b.165): T. “Levites with Aaron and his sons who are Cohenim ·Priests· shall keep the charge of the Sanctuary” (v5) / R. The Cohenim ·Priests· are not to cease the watch around the Sanctuary / R. Not to leave the Temple unguarded “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel [God prevails].
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 →