Numbers 1:47
But this number did not include the names of the men of the tribe of Levi,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
In Context
48because Yahweh had said to Moses/me,
Cross References
Numbers 2:33But just as Yahweh had commanded, the names of the descendants of Levi were not included.
Numbers 8:1Yahweh said to Moses/me,
Numbers 26:62The leaders counted 23,000 men from the descendants of Levi who were at least one month old. But these men were not counted when the rest of the Israeli people were counted, because they were not given any land.
1 Chronicles 21:6Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:45-47
44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. 45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. We have here the sum total at the foot of the account; they were in… Read the whole commentary →