Numbers 4:40 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 4:40

And those numbered by their clans and families totaled 2,630.

BSB

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ASV

even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

KJV

Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

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Commentary

1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם	pe.Ku.dei.Hem	enrolled [men] their	H6485 →
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם	le.mish.pe.cho.Tam	to clans their	H4940 →
לְבֵ֣ית	le.Veit	to [the] house of	H1004 →
אֲבֹתָ֑ם	'a.vo.Tam	ancestors their	H1 →
אַלְפַּ֕יִם	'al.Pa.yim	two thousand	H505 →
וְשֵׁ֥שׁ	ve.Shesh	and six	H8337 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃	u.she.lo.Shim	and thirty	H7970 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 3:32
The chief of the leaders of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he oversaw those responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
leads to
- Numbers 20:25–28
  Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.
- Numbers 4:27
  All the service of the Gershonites—all their transport duties and other work—is to be done at the direction of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible…
- 1 Chronicles 9:14–20
  From the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, a descendant of Merari;
- 1 Chronicles 26:20–24
  Now their fellow Levites were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated things.
- 2 Kings 25:18
  The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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