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Numbers 3:15

“Register the Levites by their ancestral families and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Firstborn;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."
King James Version
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Lexham English Bible
"Muster the descendants of Levi according to their families, according to their clans. You will count every male from one month and above."
New Century Version
"Count the Levites by families and family groups. Count every male one month old or older."
New English Translation
"Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number."
Amplified Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families (clans). You shall number every male from a month old and upward."
New American Standard Bible
"Count the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall count."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nomber the children of Leui after the houses of their fathers, in their families: euery male from a moneth olde and aboue shalt thou nomber.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."
Contemporary English Version
"Now I want you to count the men and boys in the Levi tribe by families and by clans. Include every one at least a month old."
Complete Jewish Bible
"Take a census of the tribe of Levi by clans and families. Count every male a month old or over."
Darby Translation
Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers' houses, after their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Count all the families and family groups in the tribe of Levi. Count every man or boy who is one month old or older."
English Standard Version
"List the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list."
George Lamsa Translation
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them.
Good News Translation
to register the Levites by clans and families, enrolling every male a month old or older,
Literal Translation
Number the sons of Levi by their families, by their fathers' house. You shall number every male from a son of a month and upward.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nombre the children of Leui after their fathers houses and kynreds, all that are males of a moneth olde and aboue.
American Standard Version
Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Bible in Basic English
Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Number the chyldren of Leui after the houses of their fathers in their kinredes: All that are males from a moneth old and aboue, shalt thou number.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.'
King James Version (1611)
Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.
English Revised Version
Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Berean Standard Bible
"Register the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of Synay, and seide, Noumbre thou the sones of Leuy bi `the housis of her fadris, and bi meynees, ech male fro o monethe and aboue.
Young's Literal Translation
`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.'
Update Bible Version
Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
World English Bible
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."
New King James Version
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; you shall number every male from a month old and above."
New Living Translation
"Record the names of the members of the tribe of Levi by their families and clans. List every male who is one month old or older."
New Life Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses and by their families. Number every male a month old and older."
New Revised Standard
Enroll the Levites by ancestral houses and by clans. You shall enroll every male from a month old and upward.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Number thou the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses, by their families, - every male, from one month old and upwards, shalt thou number them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.
Revised Standard Version
"Number the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."

Contextual Overview

14The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai: 15“Register the Levites by their ancestral families and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.” 16So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded: 17These were Levi’s sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 18These were the names of Gershon’s sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei. 19Kohath’s sons by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families. 21The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans. 22Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500. 23The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 3:22, Numbers 3:28, Numbers 3:34, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 3:40, Numbers 3:43, Numbers 18:15, Numbers 18:16, Numbers 26:62, Proverbs 8:17, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 31:3, Mark 10:14, 2 Timothy 3:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:24 - after the house 2 Chronicles 31:17 - genealogy

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:4
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Number the children of Levi,.... Who were left out of the general muster of the children of Israel, but now were to be numbered alone, and in a different manner, and for, a different purpose, the Lord having a special regard auto, them, and special service for them:

after the house of their fathers, by their families; into which the tribe was divided; house seems to be put for "houses", which were principal ones; and these were divided into families, which branched from them, and according to these, denominated from their fathers, and not their, mothers, were they to be numbered; for as the Jewish writers often say, a mother's family is no family; wherefore, if a Levite woman married into any other tribe, as she might, her, descendants were not taken into this accounts only such whose fathers were Levites, see Numbers 1:2;

every male from a month old and upwards shalt thou number them; the reason of this was, because the firstborn, for whom they were to be exchanged, were at a month old claimed by the Lord as his, and to be redeemed; and as this numbering was on, another account than, that of the children of Israel, who were numbered from twenty years of age and upwards, that they might on occasion be called out to war, from which the Levites were exempted, and the numbering of them was for the service of the sanctuary; so from their youth they were to be brought up and trained for this, that they might be fit for it, and enter upon it at a proper age.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:15. A month old and upward — The males of all the other tribes were numbered, from twenty years and upward; had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the firstborn 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 be also of all ages; and it appears to have been on this ground, at least partly, that the Levites were numbered from four weeks old and upward.


 
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