Numbers 4:1

JPS Old Testament

And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto 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,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and 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 LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: ² 'Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, ³ from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do work in the tent of meeting. ⁴ This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things: ⁵ when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it; ⁶ and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof. ⁷ And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the pans, and the bowls, and the jars wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall remain thereon. ⁸ And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof. ⁹ And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it. ¹⁰ And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar.

Bible Verse Review
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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
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'

Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'

Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying: 'This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed.'

Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

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