47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
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But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. …
But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
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. …
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…
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