Numbers 2:33

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

In Context

32These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

34Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Numbers 26:57And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 2:4-34

3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah. 4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. 5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar. 6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,… Read the whole commentary →

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