Numbers 1:47
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
In Context
46all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
48For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Numbers 1:3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
Numbers 2:33But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 8:1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 26:62Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
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 →