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Numbers 3:39

Numbers 3:39 is verse 39 of Numbers chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

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Numbers 3:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

39 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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Hebrew words

כָּלall פְּקוּדֵ֨י[those] enrolled of הַלְוִיִּ֜םthe Levites אֲשֶׁר֩whom פָּקַ֨דhe enrolled מֹשֶׁ֧הMoses וְׄאַׄהֲׄרֹ֛ׄןׄand Aaron עַלon פִּ֥י[the] mouth of יְהוָ֖הYahweh לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their כָּלevery זָכָר֙male מִבֶּןfrom a son of חֹ֣דֶשׁa month וָמַ֔עְלָהand up -wards שְׁנַ֥יִם[were] two וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםand twenty אָֽלֶףthousand

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 4:47
from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:48
And the number of men was 8,580.

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.

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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