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Young's Literal Translation

Numbers 3:15

`Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Firstborn;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Hafṭarah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."
King James Version
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Lexham English Bible
"Muster the descendants of Levi according to their families, according to their clans. You will count every male from one month and above."
New Century Version
"Count the Levites by families and family groups. Count every male one month old or older."
New English Translation
"Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number."
Amplified Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families (clans). You shall number every male from a month old and upward."
New American Standard Bible
"Count the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall count."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nomber the children of Leui after the houses of their fathers, in their families: euery male from a moneth olde and aboue shalt thou nomber.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."
Contemporary English Version
"Now I want you to count the men and boys in the Levi tribe by families and by clans. Include every one at least a month old."
Complete Jewish Bible
"Take a census of the tribe of Levi by clans and families. Count every male a month old or over."
Darby Translation
Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers' houses, after their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Count all the families and family groups in the tribe of Levi. Count every man or boy who is one month old or older."
English Standard Version
"List the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list."
George Lamsa Translation
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them.
Good News Translation
to register the Levites by clans and families, enrolling every male a month old or older,
Christian Standard Bible®
“Register the Levites by their ancestral families and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.”
Literal Translation
Number the sons of Levi by their families, by their fathers' house. You shall number every male from a son of a month and upward.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nombre the children of Leui after their fathers houses and kynreds, all that are males of a moneth olde and aboue.
American Standard Version
Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Bible in Basic English
Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Number the chyldren of Leui after the houses of their fathers in their kinredes: All that are males from a moneth old and aboue, shalt thou number.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.'
King James Version (1611)
Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.
English Revised Version
Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Berean Standard Bible
"Register the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of Synay, and seide, Noumbre thou the sones of Leuy bi `the housis of her fadris, and bi meynees, ech male fro o monethe and aboue.
Update Bible Version
Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward, you shall number them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
World English Bible
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."
New King James Version
"Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; you shall number every male from a month old and above."
New Living Translation
"Record the names of the members of the tribe of Levi by their families and clans. List every male who is one month old or older."
New Life Bible
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses and by their families. Number every male a month old and older."
New Revised Standard
Enroll the Levites by ancestral houses and by clans. You shall enroll every male from a month old and upward.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Number thou the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses, by their families, - every male, from one month old and upwards, shalt thou number them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.
Revised Standard Version
"Number the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."

Contextual Overview

14 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.' 16 And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded. 17 And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19 And the sons of Kohath, by their families, [are] Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their families [are] Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers. 21 Of Gershon [is] the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. 22 Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones [are] seven thousand and five hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 3:22, Numbers 3:28, Numbers 3:34, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 3:40, Numbers 3:43, Numbers 18:15, Numbers 18:16, Numbers 26:62, Proverbs 8:17, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 31:3, Mark 10:14, 2 Timothy 3:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:24 - after the house 2 Chronicles 31:17 - genealogy

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'
Genesis 3:3
and of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.'
Genesis 3:4
And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,
Genesis 3:6
And the woman seeth that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
Genesis 3:7
and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.
Genesis 3:8
And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:10
and he saith, `Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What [is] this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'
Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed [art] thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;
Genesis 3:15
and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Number the children of Levi,.... Who were left out of the general muster of the children of Israel, but now were to be numbered alone, and in a different manner, and for, a different purpose, the Lord having a special regard auto, them, and special service for them:

after the house of their fathers, by their families; into which the tribe was divided; house seems to be put for "houses", which were principal ones; and these were divided into families, which branched from them, and according to these, denominated from their fathers, and not their, mothers, were they to be numbered; for as the Jewish writers often say, a mother's family is no family; wherefore, if a Levite woman married into any other tribe, as she might, her, descendants were not taken into this accounts only such whose fathers were Levites, see Numbers 1:2;

every male from a month old and upwards shalt thou number them; the reason of this was, because the firstborn, for whom they were to be exchanged, were at a month old claimed by the Lord as his, and to be redeemed; and as this numbering was on, another account than, that of the children of Israel, who were numbered from twenty years of age and upwards, that they might on occasion be called out to war, from which the Levites were exempted, and the numbering of them was for the service of the sanctuary; so from their youth they were to be brought up and trained for this, that they might be fit for it, and enter upon it at a proper age.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:15. A month old and upward — The males of all the other tribes were numbered, from twenty years and upward; had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the firstborn of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as there must have been first-born of all ages in the other tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be their substitutes, should be also of all ages; and it appears to have been on this ground, at least partly, that the Levites were numbered from four weeks old and upward.


 
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