Numbers 1:47 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁷But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Numbers 1:47 —

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Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 3:1
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
1 Chronicles 6:1-81
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. …
1 Chronicles 21:6
But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
Numbers 26:57-62
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 47-54)

Care is here taken to distinguish from the rest of the tribes the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself, Exod. 32:26. Note, Singular services shall be recompensed with singular honours. Now, I. It was the honour of the Levites that they were made guardians of the spiritualities; to them was committed the care of the tabernacle and the treasures thereof, b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 47)

47-54. But the Levites ... were not numbered among them--They were obliged to keep a register of their own. They were consecrated to the priestly office, which in all countries has been exempted customarily, and in Israel by the express authority of God, from military service. The custody of the things devoted to the divine service was assigned to them so exclusively, that “no stranger”--that is,…