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Numbers 3:28

in Numbers 3

The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

KJV

In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites

on Numbers 3:27-28

Kohath's four families number eight thousand six hundred, the largest of the three houses. The Amramites are the family of Moses and Aaron, and the Izeharites are the family of Korah, whom Numbers 16:1 traces through Izhar back to Kohath. The men who will carry the holy furniture and the man who will challenge the priesthood come out of the same house of Levi.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • בְּמִסְפַּר֙by [the] number of

    bemisparH4557134 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H36055413 times

  • זָכָ֔רmale

    zakharH214582 times

  • מִבֶּן־from a son of

    miben-H11214930 times

  • חֹ֖דֶשׁa month

    chodeshH2320284 times

  • וָמָ֑עְלָהand up -wards

    vamaelahH4605140 times

  • שְׁמֹנַ֤תeight

    shemonatH8083109 times

  • אֲלָפִים֙thousand<s>

    ʾalafimH505505 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣שׁand six

    vesheshH8337216 times

  • מֵא֔וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967581 times

  • שֹׁמְרֵ֖י[were] [the] keepers of

    shomereiH8104468 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת[the] duty of

    mishmeretH493178 times

  • הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃the holy place

    hakodeshH6944469 times

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

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 3:7

    They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:50

      Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp…

    • Numbers 8:15

      After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

    • Numbers 8:11

      Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:31

    Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 37:1

      Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

    • Exodus 26:31–33

      Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

    • Exodus 40:30

      He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;

    • Exodus 39:33–42

      Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;

    • Exodus 36:35–36

      Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.