49Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
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And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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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