1These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day in that Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. 2These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab was the firstborn, and then there were AbiUd, EliEzer, and IthaMar. 3They were the anointed Priests who were made perfect for the Priesthood. 4However, Nadab and AbiUd died before Jehovah when they offered [incense] to Him in an unauthorized way, while they were in the Sinai Desert. And because they had no children, just EliEzer and IthaMar served as Priests with their father Aaron. 5Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and told him, 6‘Bring the tribe of Levi up in front of Aaron the Priest, for they are to all serve him. 7They must follow his instructions and then give the instructions to of the children of Israel, there in front of the Tent of Proofs… and they must work at the Tent. 8They are to take care of all the furnishings at the Tent of Proofs, and to instruct the children of Israel about things having to do with the Tent. 9Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons the Priests, for they have been given to Me as a gift from among the children of Israel. 10‘Appoint Aaron and his sons to be in charge of the Tent of Proofs. Then they must give instructions concerning the Priesthood, everything that belongs to the Altar, and everything inside the veil. And anyone else who touches these things must die.’ 11Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and said, 12‘Look, I have chosen the Levites from among the children of Israel [to take the place] of [the rest of] the [firstborn] males that are among the children of Israel. [The Levites] are their ransom, and they are Mine. 13For, all the firstborn have been Mine since the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. I chose all the firstborn in Israel as holy to Myself – both the men and the animals – and they are Mine, for I am Jehovah.’ 14Then Jehovah spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert and said, 15‘Take a census of the sons of Levi by family lines and divisions… count every male from a month old and up.’ 16So, Moses and Aaron counted them following Jehovah’s instructions. 17The sons of Levi were Gedson, CaAth, and MeraRi. 18Gedson’s sons (and family lines) were Lobeni and Semei. 19CaAth’s sons (and family lines) were AmRam, IsSaAr, Hebron, and OziEl. 20MeraRi’s sons (and family lines) were MoOli and Musi. These were the families of the Levites by family lines. 21The Gedson family lines were those of Lobeni and Semei. 22And the number of males [in that line], which were a month old and older, was seven thousand five hundred. 23The sons of Gedson were to camp behind the Tent on its west side. 24The ruler of the family of Gedson was EliSaph, the son of DaEl. 25The instructions that were given to the sons of Gedson concerning the Tent of Proofs, was to care for the tent itself, the veil that covers the entrance to the Tent of Proofs, 26the curtains for the courtyard, the veil to the courtyard (which is around the Tent), and the like. 27There were [four] divisions that were counted [in the family line] of CaAth. They were AmRam, IsSaAr, Hebron, and OziEl. 28There were eight thousand six hundred males a month old and older, and they were given these instructions regarding the holy things: 29The families of the sons of CaAth were to camp next to the Tent, along its south side. 30The ruler of the family line and divisions of CaAth was EliSaphan, the son of OziEl. 31They were told that they were to be in charge of the Chest, the Table, the Sacred Lamp, the Altars, and all the furnishings in the Holy Place that were used in holy service inside the veil, and all their parts. 32The head over the chiefs of the Levites was EliEzer, the son of Aaron the Priest. He was appointed to give all the instructions regarding the holy things. 33The family lines of MeraRi were those of MoOli and Musi. 34All the males a month old and older among this line, were counted at six thousand and fifty. 35The head of the family line and divisions of MeraRi was SuriEl, the son of AbiChail. They were to camp next to the Tent, along its north side. 36The sons of MeraRi were told that they were to be in charge of the Tent’s caps, rafters, posts, sockets, all their fittings and pieces, 37the posts for the courtyard, and their bases, pins, and ropes. 38Moses, Aaron, and his sons were to camp in front of the Tent of Proofs on its east side. They were to take care of the Holy Place and give instructions about it to the children of Israel. And anyone who touched it was to die. 39All the Levites who Moses and Aaron counted, which were a month old and older (by family lines), following Jehovah’s instructions, were twenty-two thousand. 40Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and said, ‘Now count all the firstborn males among the children of Israel who are a month old and older, and take their names. 41Then take the Levites for Me in place of all the firstborn of the sons of Israel. Also, take all the Levites’ cattle in place of the first-born of the cattle of the children of Israel, for I am Jehovah.’ 42So Moses counted all the firstborn of the children of Israel, just as Jehovah commanded him. 43And all the male firstborn a month old and older that were counted by name were twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three. 44Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and said, 45‘Now take the Levites in place of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the Levite’s cattle in place of their cattle, and they must be Mine, for I am Jehovah. 46And the ransom [that must be paid] for all the firstborn of the sons of Israel that exceed the number of Levites (the two hundred and seventy-three) 47[must be paid for] with five silver-coins per person. They must be paid for using the holy double-silver coins at twenty copper coins per silver coin. 48Then give the money to Aaron and his sons as the ransom for those who exceed their number.’ 49So, Moses took the silver as the ransom for those that exceeded the number who were bought by the Levites. 50The amount of holy silver coins that he took from the firstborn of the sons of Israel was one thousand, three hundred and sixty-five. 51Then Moses gave the ransom for these extra ones to Aaron and his sons, according to the instructions that Jehovah gave to Moses.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 Num 3:1 The sons of Aaron.
Num 3:5 The Levites are given to the priests instead of the first-born;
Num 3:14 are numbered by their families.
Num 3:21 The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites;
Num 3:27 of the Kohathites;
Num 3:33 of the Merarites.
Num 3:38 The place and charge of Moses and Aaron.
Num 3:40 The first-born are freed by the Levites.
Num 3:44 The overplus are redeemed.
generations.
Gen 2:4 Gen 5:1 Gen 10:1 Exod 6:16 Exod 6:20 Matt 1:1spake.
Num 1:1 Lev 25:1 Lev 27:34 2 Num 26:60 Exod 6:23 Exod 28:1 1Chr 6:3 1Chr 24:1 3 the priests.
Exod 28:41 Exod 40:13 Exod 40:15 Lev 8:2 Lev 8:12 Lev 8:30whom he consecrated. Heb. whose hand he filled.
Exod 29:1 -
Exod 29:37 Lev 8:1 -
Lev 9:24 Heb 7:28 4 Nadab.
Num 26:61 Lev 10:1 Lev 10:2 5 Num 3:5 6 The word
hakraiv, here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's.
Num 1:49 -
Num 1:53 Num 2:17 Num 2:33 Num 8:6 -
Num 8:15 Num 8:22 -
Num 8:26 Num 16:9 -
Num 16:11 Num 18:2 -
Num 18:6 Exod 32:26 -
Exod 32:29 Deut 33:8 Deut 33:9 Mal 2:4 7 keep.
Num 3:32 Num 8:26 Num 31:30 1Chr 23:28 -
1Chr 23:32 1Chr 26:20 1Chr 26:22 1Chr 26:26to do the.
Num 1:50 Num 8:11 Num 8:15 Num 8:24 -
Num 8:26 8 Num 4:15 Num 4:28 Num 4:33 Num 10:17 Num 10:21 1Chr 26:20 -
1Chr 26:28 Ezra 8:24 -
Ezra 8:30 Isa 52:11 9 Num 8:19 Num 18:6 Num 18:7 Eph 4:8 Eph 4:11 10 they shall.
Num 18:7 1Chr 6:32 Ezek 44:8 Acts 6:3 Acts 6:4 Rom 12:7 1Tim 4:15 1Tim 4:16and the stranger.
Num 3:38 Num 1:51 Num 16:35 Num 16:40 Num 18:3 1Sam 6:19 2Sam 6:7 2Chr 26:16 -
2Chr 26:21 Eph 2:19 Heb 8:4 Heb 10:19 -
Heb 10:22 11 Num 3:11 12 When God miraculously destroyed all the first-born of the Egyptians, (
Exod 12:29,) he spared those of the Israelites; and, in commemoration of that event, he was pleased to appoint that all the first-born males "should be set apart unto himself." (
Exod 13:12 -
Exod 13:16.) God is here pleased to relinquish this claim, and to appoint the whole tribe of Levi to attend his immediate service in their stead.
Num 3:41 Num 3:45 Num 8:16 Num 8:18 Num 18:6 13 Because.
Num 8:16 Num 8:17 Num 18:15 Exod 13:2 Exod 13:12 Exod 22:29 Exod 34:19 Lev 27:26 Ezek 44:30 Luke 2:23 Heb 12:23on the day.
Exod 12:29 Exod 12:30 Exod 13:15 14 Num 3:14 15 Num 3:22 Num 3:28 Num 3:34 Num 3:39 Num 3:40 Num 3:43 Num 18:15 Num 18:16 Num 26:62 Pro 8:17 Jer 2:2 Jer 31:3 Mark 10:14 2Tim 3:15 16 word. Heb. mouth.
Num 3:39 Num 3:51 Num 4:27 Num 4:37 Num 4:41 Num 4:45 Num 4:49 Gen 45:21 Deut 21:5 17 Num 26:57 Num 26:58 Gen 46:11 Exod 6:16 -
Exod 6:19 Josh 21:1 -
Josh 21:45 1Chr 6:1 1Chr 6:2 1Chr 6:16 -
1Chr 6:19Gershom.
Num 15:5 -
Num 15:23 Num 23:6 -
Num 23:23 Num 24:1 -
Num 26:65 Neh 11:1 -
Neh 12:47 18 Num 3:21 Exod 6:17 -
Exod 6:19 1Chr 6:17 1Chr 6:20 1Chr 6:21 1Chr 23:7 -
1Chr 23:11 1Chr 25:4 1Chr 26:1 -
1Chr 26:32 Neh 12:1 -
Neh 12:26 19 Num 3:27 Exod 6:18 Exod 6:20 1Chr 6:18 1Chr 6:38 1Chr 15:5 1Chr 15:8 -
1Chr 15:10 1Chr 15:17 -
1Chr 15:21 1Chr 23:12 1Chr 23:13 1Chr 23:18 -
1Chr 23:20 1Chr 25:4 1Chr 26:1 -
1Chr 26:32 Neh 12:1 -
Neh 12:26 20 Num 3:33 Exod 6:19 1Chr 6:19 1Chr 6:29 1Chr 6:44 -
1Chr 6:47 1Chr 15:6 1Chr 23:21 -
1Chr 23:23 1Chr 24:27 -
1Chr 24:30 1Chr 25:3 21 Num 3:18 22 from a month old. The males of all the other tribes were numbered from twenty years old and upwards; but, had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the first-born of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as there must have been first-born of all ages in the other tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be their substitutes, should also be of all ages; and it appears to have been partly on this ground, that the Levites were numbered from a month old and upwards.
Num 4:38 -
Num 4:40 23 Num 1:53 Num 2:17 24 Lael: i.e. unto, by, because of God, [Strong's *H3815*].
Num 3:24 25 the charge. From this and the next chapter, we see the very severe labour which the Levites were to perform, while the journeyings of the Israelites lasted. When we consider, that there was not less than 14 tons 266 lbs. of metal employed in the tabernacle, (see note on
Exod 38:24,) besides the immense weight of the skins, hangings, cords, boards, and posts, we shall find it was no easy matter to transport this moveable temple from place to place. The Gershonites, who were 7,500 in number had to carry the tent, coverings, vail, hangings of the court, cords, etc. (ver. 25, 26
Num 3:25 and
Num 3:26); the Kohathites, who were 8,600, the ark, table, candlestick, altars, and instruments of the sanctuary (ver. 31
Num 3:31); and the Merarites, who were 6,200, the boards, bars, sockets, and all matters connected with these belonging to the tabernacle, with the pillars of the court, their sockets, pins, and cords (ver. 36, 37
Num 3:36 and
Num 3:37).
Num 3:7 Num 4:24 -
Num 4:28 Num 7:7 Num 10:17 1Chr 9:14 -
1Chr 9:33 1Chr 23:32 1Chr 26:21 1Chr 26:22 2Chr 31:2 2Chr 31:11 -
2Chr 31:18 Ezra 8:28 -
Ezra 8:30 Mark 13:34 Rom 12:6 -
Rom 12:8 Col 4:17 1Tim 1:18the tabernacle and.
Exod 25:9 Exod 26:1 -
Exod 26:14 Exod 36:8 -
Exod 36:19 Exod 40:19and the hanging.
Exod 26:36 Exod 26:37 Exod 36:37 Exod 36:38 Exod 40:28 26 the hangings.
Exod 27:9 -
Exod 27:16 Exod 38:9 -
Exod 38:16the cords.
Exod 35:18 27 Num 3:19 1Chr 23:12 1Chr 26:23 28 eight thousand.
Num 4:35 Num 4:36keeping.
Num 3:7 Num 3:31 29 Num 3:23 Num 1:53 Num 2:10 30 Num 3:30 31 the ark.
Num 4:4 -
Num 4:16 Exod 25:10 -
Exod 25:40 Exod 31:1 -
Exod 35:29 Exod 37:1 -
Exod 37:24 Exod 39:33 -
Exod 39:42 Exod 40:2 -
Exod 40:16 Exod 40:30the altars.
Exod 27:1 -
Exod 27:8 Exod 30:1 -
Exod 30:10 Exod 37:25 -
Exod 37:29 Exod 38:1 -
Exod 38:7and the hanging.
Exod 26:31 -
Exod 26:33 Exod 36:35 Exod 36:36 32 Num 4:16 Num 4:27 Num 20:25 -
Num 20:28 2Kgs 25:18 1Chr 9:14 -
1Chr 9:20 1Chr 26:20 -
1Chr 26:24 33 Num 3:20 1Chr 6:19 1Chr 23:21 34 Num 1:21 Num 2:9 Num 2:11 35 shall.
Num 3:28 Num 3:29 Num 1:53northward.
Num 2:25 36 under the custody and charge. Heb. the office of the charge. the boards.
Num 4:29 -
Num 4:33 Num 7:8 Exod 26:15 -
Exod 26:29 Exod 26:32 Exod 26:37 Exod 27:9 -
Exod 27:19 Exod 35:11 Exod 35:18 Exod 36:20 -
Exod 36:34 Exod 36:36 Exod 38:17 -
Exod 38:20 Exod 39:33 37 Num 3:37 38 toward.
Num 3:23 Num 3:29 Num 3:35 Num 1:53 Num 2:3keeping.
Num 3:10 Num 18:1 -
Num 18:5 1Chr 6:48 1Chr 6:49for the charge.
Num 3:7 Num 3:8 Num 3:10 39 and Aaron. The word [w'hrn,]
weaharon, and "Aaron," has a point over each of its letters, probably designed as a mark of spuriousness. The word is wanting in the Samaritan, Syriac, and Coptic, and also in eight of Dr. Kennicott's and in four of De Rossi's MSS. Moses alone, as Houbigant observes, was commanded to number the Levites, (ver. 5, 11, 40, 44, 51:
Num 3:5,
Num 3:11,
Num 3:40,
Num 3:44,
Num 3:51) for as the money with which the first-born were redeemed was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, (ver. 48,
Num 3:48) it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself.
twenty and two thousand. This total does not agree with the particulars; for the Gershonites were 7,500, the Kohathites 8,600, and the Merarites 6,200, which make a total of 22,300. Several methods of solving this difficulty have been proposed by learned men. Houbigant supposes there is an error in the enumeration of the Kohathites in ver. 28
Num 3:28; the numeral
shesh, "six," being written instead of
shalosh, "three," before "hundred." Dr. Kennicott's mode of reconciling the discrepancy, however, is the most simple. He supposes that an error has crept into the number of the Gershonites in ver. 22,
Num 3:22 where instead of 7,500 we should read 7,200, as [k,]
caph final, which stands for 500, might have been easily mistaken for [r,] resh, 200. (Dr. Kennicott on the Hebrew Text, vol. II. p. 212.) Either of these modes will equally reconcile the difference.
Num 4:47 Num 4:48 Num 26:62 Matt 7:14 40 Num 3:12 Num 3:15 Num 3:45 Exod 32:26 -
Exod 32:29 Ps 87:6 Isa 4:3 Luke 10:20 Phil 4:3 2Tim 2:19 Heb 12:23 Rev 3:5 Rev 14:4 41 Num 3:12 Num 3:45 Num 8:16 Num 18:15 Exod 24:5 Exod 24:6 Exod 32:26 -
Exod 32:29 Matt 20:28 1Tim 2:6 42 Num 3:42 43 Num 3:39 44 Num 3:44 45 Num 3:12 Num 3:40 Num 3:41 46 redeemed.
Num 18:15 Exod 13:13the two hundred. As the number of the Levites was 22,000, and the first-born males of the Israelites were 22,273, there were therefore 372 more of the latter than of the former, which are here ordered to be redeemed. The price of redemption is fixed at five shekels, or about 15s. each, in ver 47
Num 3:47. This money, amounting to 1,365 shekels, equal to Ł204. 15s. English, was taken of the first-born. There is some difficulty, however, in determining which of the first-born should be redeemed by paying this sum, and which should be exchanged for the Levites; for every Israelite, no doubt, would rather have his first-born redeemed by a Levite, than pay five shekels; and yet some of them must have incurred this expense. Rabbi Solomon Jarchi says, to prevent contention, Moses took 22,000 slips of parchment, and wrote on each a son of Levi, and 273 more, on which he wrote five shekels; then putting them in an urn, and shaking them together, he ordered every one of the first-born to draw out a slip. If he drew out one with the first inscription, he said to him, a Levite hath redeemed thee: but if he drew out one of the latter, he said, pay the price. This is pronounced by Dr. A. Clarke to be a stupid, silly tale; but when we know that the determination by lot was used among the Israelites, it does not seem improbable that it was now resorted to, though we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the detail. This species of redeeming men is referred to by St. Peter in his 1st Epistle, ch. 1:18, 19.
1Pet 1:18,
1Pet 1:19.
which are.
Num 3:39 -
Num 3:43 47 five shekels.
Num 18:16 Lev 27:6the shekel.
Num 3:50 Exod 30:13 Lev 27:25 Ezek 45:12 48 Num 3:48 49 Num 3:49 50 Num 3:46 Num 3:47 Matt 20:28 1Tim 2:5 1Tim 2:6 Titus 2:14 Heb 9:12 1Pet 1:18 1Pet 3:18 51 Moses.
Num 3:48 Num 16:15 1Sam 12:3 1Sam 12:4 Acts 20:33 1Cor 9:12 1Pet 5:2as the Lord.
Mal 4:4