Numbers 4:18
“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be removed from among the Levites.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
In Context
17Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He said,
19Protect them, that they may live and not die, by doing this. When they approach the most holy things
Cross References
Exodus 19:21Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to me to look, or many of them will perish.
Exodus 30:38Whoever makes anything like it to use as a perfume must be cut off from his people.”
Numbers 16:32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their families, and all the people who belonged to Korah, as well as all their possessions.
Numbers 18:5You must take responsibility for the holy place and for the altar so that my anger does not come on the people of Israel again.
2 Samuel 6:6When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out with his hand to grab the ark of God, and he took hold of it.
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 →