Numbers 4:1

Bishop's Bible

And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron, saying:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New English Translation
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses and Aaron:

Complete Jewish Bible
(vii) Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses & Aaron,

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises and to Aaron,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses and unto Aaron saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, "Number the Kohathite line of Levites by clan and family. Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age, all who enter the ministry to work in the Tent of Meeting.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron, saying: ² Take the summe of the chyldren of Caath fro among the sonnes of Leui, after their kinredes and houses of their fathers: ³ From thirtie yeres and aboue, vntill fiftie, all that enter into the hoast for to do the worke in the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁴ This shalbe the office of the chyldren of Caath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy. ⁵ And when the hoast remoueth, Aaron and his sonnes shall come and take downe the couering vayle, and wrap the arke of wytnesse in it: ⁶ And shall put thereon a coueryng of Badgers skinnes, and shall spreade vppon it a cloth that is altogether of blew silke, and put in the barres therof. ⁷ And vpon the shewe table, they shall spreade abrode a cloth of blew silke, and put thereon the dishes, [incense] cuppes, and goblets, and pottes to powre with: and there shalbe bread thereon continually. ⁸ And they shall spreade vpon them a couering of skarlet, and couer the same with a couering of Badgers skinnes, and put in the barres thereof. ⁹ And they shall take a cloth of blewe silke, and couer the candelsticke of light, with his lampes, snuffers, and censars, and all the oyle vessels whiche they occupie about it. ¹⁰ And they shall put both it and all the vessels thereof, within a coueryng of Badgers skinnes, and put it vpon a barre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:11 - Levi Exodus 31:6 - that they Numbers 1:47 - General Numbers 4:49 - as the Lord Numbers 7:66 - On the tenth day Numbers 8:1 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 5:29
And called his name Noah, saying: This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke, & sorowe of our handes about the earth, which God cursed.

Numbers 31:17
Nowe therfore, slay all the men children, and kyl the women that haue lien with men fleshly.

1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, which was of that wicked, and slewe his brother: And wherfore slewe he hym? Because his owne workes were euyll, and his brothers good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... After they had taken the number of the Levites, and made an exchange of the firstborn of Israel for them; and now they are ordered to number them a second time, and take out from them such as were fit for service:

saying; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV

Moses is commanded to take the sum of the sons of Kohath from

thirty years old and upward, 1-4.

The service which they had to perform, 5-15.

The office of Eleazar, 16.

The family of Kohath to be continued among the Levites, 17-19.

They are not to go into the holy of holies, 20.

The sum of the sons of Gershon, 21-23.

The service they had to perform, 24-27.

They are to be under Ithamar, 28.

The sum of the sons of Merari, 29, 30.

The service they had to perform, 31-33.

The sum of all the families of Kohath, 2,750, ver. 34-37.

The sum of the families of Gershon, 2,630, ver. 38-41.

The sum of the families of Merari, 3,200, ver. 42-45.

The sum total of the families of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari,

8,580, ver. 46-49.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV