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Numbers 4:2

in Numbers 4

“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,

This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron

on Numbers 4:1-4

Kohath is counted before Gershon, the elder at 3:17, so the order follows the load. This count takes only the men “from thirty to fifty years old”. Albert Barnes notes that the Hebrew for their service is military language.

This site's exposition

Take a census of the Kohathites

This is a second count of the same tribe. John Gill places it after the Levites had been numbered from a month old and exchanged for Israel's firstborn in Numbers 3. The first count settled who belonged to God, and this one takes out the men fit to work.

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.

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

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).