Numbers 3:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Numbers 3:14 —

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Census Enumeration Kohath Korhites Levi Levites Merari Minister, Christian

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-39)

The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num. 3:15. The rest of the tribes were numbered only from twenty years old and upwards, and of them those only that were able to go forth to war; but into the…

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

(vv. 14)

14-31. Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted “from a month old and upward.” The reason for the distinction is obvious. In the other tribes the survey was made for purpo…