Numbers 4:18

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

Webster Bible

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 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 every one to his service and to his burden:

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 30:38Whoever shall make the like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 18:5And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it: for the oxen shook 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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