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Numbers 3:39

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37 as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.

38 Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

The total number of Levites that Moses and Aaron counted by their clans at the LORD’s command, including all the males a month old or more, was 22,000.

40 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.

41 You are to take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”

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BSB
The total number of Levites that Moses and Aaron counted by their clans at the LORD’s command, including all the males a month old or more, was 22,000.
KJV
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
WEB
All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
ASV
All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
DARBY
All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, according to their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
BLB
All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of YHWH, by their clans, all the males from a son of a month and above, [were] two and twenty thousand.
ÅB
Alle de av levittene som ble mønstret, de som Moses og Aron mønstret etter Herrens ord, slekt for slekt, alt mannkjønn, fra den som var en måned gammel, og oppover, var to og tyve tusen.
OTB
Alle de talte mennene av levittene, som Moses og Aron talte etter Herrens befaling etter deres familier, hver mannlig fra en måned gammel og oppover, var 22 000.
B1930
Alle de av levittene som blev mønstret, de som Moses og Aron mønstret efter Herrens ord, ætt for ætt, alt mannkjønn, fra den som var en måned gammel, og opover, var to og tyve tusen.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 26:62

    The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

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  • Matthew 7:14

    But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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  • Numbers 4:47–48

    from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

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