Numbers 4:18

Ye shall not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Leuites:

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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

17And the Lord spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19But thus do vnto them, that they may liue and not die, when they come neere to the most holy things: let Aaron and his sonnes come and appoynt them, euery one to his office, and to his charge.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Go down, charge the people, that they breake not their boundes, to go vp to the Lord to gaze, least many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Whosoeuer shall make like vnto that to smelll thereto, euen he shalbe cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 18:5Therefore shall ye keepe the charge of the Sanctuarie, and the charge of the altar: so there shall fall no more wrath vpon the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to Nachons threshing floore, Vzzah put his hande to the Arke of God, and helde it: for the oxen did shake 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 →

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