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Numbers 4:37

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These were counted from the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

KJV

These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

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This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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.

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

according to the command of the LORD through Moses

Kohath gave fewer than a third of its males to the work. Matthew Henry drew from the figure that many belong to a congregation while few carry its work, and he cited Philippians 2:20-21. The refrain names Moses as the channel of the order.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites,.... See Gill on Num 4:34.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • אֵ֤לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • פְקוּדֵי֙[were] [the] enrolled [men] of

    fekudeiH6485 →303 times

  • מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת[the] clans of

    mishpechotH4940 →303 times

  • הַקְּהָתִ֔יthe Kohathite[s]

    hakehatiH6956 →15 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֹבֵ֖ד<the> [one who] serves

    haovedH5647 →288 times

  • בְּאֹ֣הֶלin [the] tent of

    beohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֑דmeeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • פָּקַ֤דhe enrolled

    pakadH6485 →303 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְאַהֲרֹ֔ןand Aaron

    veaharonH175 →347 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פִּ֥י[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּיַד־by [the] hand of

    beyad-H3027 →1618 times

  • מֹשֶֽׁה׃ סMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

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

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Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
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This page draws on 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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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