Numbers 3:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 6:19
And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
1 Chronicles 6:19
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
1 Chronicles 15:6
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
1 Chronicles 25:3
Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
1 Chronicles 6:44-47
And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, …

Topics

Census Enumeration Gershom Gershon Kohath Korhites Levi Levites

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. 20)

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…