Numbers 4:18

"Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

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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

17The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21The Lord said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord 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 16:32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 18:5"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.

2 Samuel 6:6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

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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