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Numbers 4:2

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“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

KJV

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

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This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the Lord spake unto Moses

on Numbers 4:1-4

Kohath is counted first, though Gershon stands first in Levi's line at Numbers 3:17, so the order of the three families here follows the load rather than the birth. Numbers 3 had counted every male Levite from a month old, while this count takes only the men between thirty and fifty, the ones who will lift. Albert Barnes points out that the phrase rendered enter into the host is military language, literally to war the warfare. Two other passages give a different starting age, twenty-five at Numbers 8:24 and twenty at 1 Chronicles 23:24, and Adam Clarke reads the difference as the heaviest carrying work being reserved for men in full strength.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi,....

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • נָשֹׂ֗אlift up

    naso'H5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רֹאשׁ֙[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • קְהָ֔תKohath

    kehatH6955 →32 times

  • מִתּ֖וֹךְfrom among

    mitokhH8432 →418 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • לֵוִ֑יLevi

    leviH3878 →59 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖םto clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • לְבֵ֥יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָֽם׃ancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:27

    From Kohath came the clans of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 26:23

      From the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:

    • Numbers 3:19

      The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:12

      The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:19

    The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 6:18

      The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:18

      The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:12–13

      The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.

    • Exodus 6:20

      And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

    • 1 Chronicles 15:5

      From the Kohathites, Uriel the chief and 120 of his relatives;

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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