Numeri 1:49

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Daarentegen zult gij den stam Levi niet monsteren en de som van hen niet opnemen onder de Israelieten.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Den stam Levi alleen zult gij niet tellen, noch hunne som opmaken onder de zonen van Isral.

Staten Vertaling
Alleen den stam van Levi zult gij niet tellen, noch hun som opnemen, onder de zonen van Israel.

Bible Verse Review
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Numbers 2:33, Numbers 26:62

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:6 - General Numbers 8:11 - they may execute

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only thou shall not number the tribe of Levi,.... That is, along with the other tribes, for it might be numbered by itself, as it afterwards was, Numbers 3:43;

neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel; which confirms what is before observed: now this being the declared will of God clears Moses from all partiality to his own tribe, he doing nothing but what he had a command of God for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for service in the field.

Numbers 1:48

had spoken - Render spake. The formal appointment is only now made, in reward for their zeal Exodus 32:26-29, though reference to their future office appears previously in Leviticus 25:32 ff, and they had already acted as assistants to the priests (compare Exodus 38:21).