48Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
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All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-49)We have here a particular account of the numbers of the three families of the Levites respectively, that is, of the effective men, between thirty years old and fifty. Observe, 1. The Kohathites were, in all, 8600 from a month old and upwards; but of these there were but 2750 serviceable men, not a third part. The Gershonites, in all, 7500, and of them but 2630 serviceable men, little more than a t…
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