Numbers 4:18

Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off out of the midst of the Levites.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

In Context

17Then spake Yahweh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

19This, therefore, do ye for them, so shall they live and not die when they approach the most holy place,—Aaron and his sons shall enter and set them man by man over his labour, and unto his burden;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Go down, adjure the people,—lest they press through unto Yahweh to see, and so there fall from among them a multitude.

Exodus 30:38Whosoever shall make like it, to smell of it shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 16:32and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them, and their households,—and all the human beings who pertained unto Korah, with all their goods:

Numbers 18:5So shall ye keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar,—that there no more be wrath against the sons of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And, when they came as far as the threshing-floor of Nachon, Uzzah thrust forth his hand unto the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen were restive.

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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