Numbers 4:18

'Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

19but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: — Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden,

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Go down, protest to the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to see, and many of them have fallen;

Exodus 30:38a man who maketh [any] like it — to be refreshed by it — hath even been cut off from his people.'

Numbers 16:32and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who [are] for Korah, and all the goods,

Numbers 18:5and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And they come unto the threshing-floor of Nachon, and Uzzah putteth forth [his hand] unto the ark of God, and layeth hold on it, for they released the oxen;

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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