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Numbers 4:36

in Numbers 4

And those numbered by their clans totaled 2,750.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

KJV

And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Those that were numbered - In Num 3:27, etc., we have an account of the whole number of the Levites, and here of those only who were able to serve the Lord in the sanctuary. By comparing the two places we find the numbers to stand thus: - Levite Family Able Men Unable Men Total Kohathites 2,750 5,850 8,600 Gershonites 2,630 4,870 7,500 Merarites 3,200 3,000 6,200 Thus we find that the whole number of the Levites amounted to 22,300, of whom 3,580 were fit for service, and 13,720 unfit, being either too old or too young.

This site's exposition

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation

on Numbers 4:34-41

Kohath yields 2,750 men of working age and Gershon 2,630. Against the 8,600 and 7,500 counted in chapter 3, about a third of each family falls inside the window from thirty to fifty.

This site's exposition

totaled 2,750

Adam Clarke sets this figure beside the 8,600 Kohathites of Numbers 3:28 and finds 5,850 males too young or too old for the work. Kohath had the most males of the three families. It had fewer workers than Merari.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And those that were numbered of them by their families,.... See Gill on Num 4:34.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites, &c.--This enumeration was made on a different principle from that which is recorded in the preceding chapter [Nu 3:15]. That was confined to the males from a month old and upward, while this was extended to all capable of service in the three classes of the Levitical tribe.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַיִּהְי֥וּand they were

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • פְקֻדֵיהֶ֖םenrolled [men] their

    fekudeihemH6485 →303 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • אַלְפַּ֕יִםtwo thousand

    ʾalpayimH505 →505 times

  • שְׁבַ֥עseven

    sheva'H7651 →394 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃and fifty

    vachamishimH2572 →163 times

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

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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