Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
WEB
“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
YLT
`Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;
DBT
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC