1And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai. 2And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar; 3these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest. 4And Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar -- Ithamar also -- acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father. 5And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 6"Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, 7and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; 8and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle; 9and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel. 10"And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death." 11And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 12"And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine; 13for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah." 14And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them." 16And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded. 17And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19And the sons of Kohath, by their families, are Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers. 21Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. 22Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred. 23The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward. 24And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael. 25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, 26and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service. 27And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite. 28In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. 29The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward. 30And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel. 31And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service. 32And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary. 33Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari. 34And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred. 35And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward. 36And the oversight -- the charge of the sons of Merari -- is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service, 37and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. 38And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death. 39All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also -- by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, are two and twenty thousand. 40And Jehovah saith unto Moses, "Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names; 41and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel." 42And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel. 43And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three. 44And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 45"Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah. 46"And from those ransomed of the two hundred and seventy and three (who are more than the Levites) of the first-born of the sons of Israel, 47thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is; 48and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed." 49And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites; 50from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary; 51and Moses giveth the money of those ransomed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the command of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded 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
