Numbers 4:18

Young's Literal Translation

`Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kehati from among the Levites;

King James Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

Lexham English Bible
"You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites from the midst of the Levites.

New Century Version
"Don't let the Kohathites be cut off from the Levites.

New English Translation
"Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;

Amplified Bible
"Do not cut off (eliminate, destroy) the tribe of the families of the Kohathites [who are only Levites and not priests], from among the Levites [by exposing them to the sin of touching the most holy things].

New American Standard Bible
"Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be eliminated from among the Levites.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shal not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Leuites:

Legacy Standard Bible
"Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Do not cut off the clan of K'hat from among the L'vi'im;

Darby Translation
Ye shall not cut off the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Be careful! Don't let these Kohathite men be destroyed.

English Standard Version
"Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not destroy the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.

Literal Translation
Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal not destroye the trybe of the kynred of the Rahathites amoge the Leuites,

American Standard Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

Bible in Basic English
Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall not cut of the tribe of the kinred of the Caathites, from among the Leuites:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

King James Version (1611)
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites, from among the Leuites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

English Revised Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

Berean Standard Bible
"Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be cut off from among the Levites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nyle ye leese the puple of Caath fro the myddis of Leuytis;

Update Bible Version
Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

Webster's Bible Translation
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

World English Bible
"Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

New King James Version
"Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

New Living Translation
"Do not let the Kohathite clans be destroyed from among the Levites!

New Life Bible
"Do not let the family group of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites.

New Revised Standard
You must not let the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off out of the midst of the Levites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:

Revised Standard Version
"Let not the tribe of the families of the Ko'hathites be destroyed from among the Levites;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying, ² `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers; <sup>3</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup> `This [is] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies: ⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony; ⁶ and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves. ⁷ `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it, ⁸ and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves, ⁹ and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it; ¹⁰ and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put [it] on the bar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the Kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see - Numbers 4:20. Numbers 16:32, Numbers 17:10, Numbers 18:5, Exodus 19:21, Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 10:2, 1 Samuel 6:19, 2 Samuel 6:6, 2 Samuel 6:7, Jeremiah 38:23

Cross-References

Genesis 5:21
And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah.

Genesis 36:2
Esau hath taken his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites. Or give no occasion, as the Targum of Jonathan; or be not the cause of their cutting off, as Jarchi, through negligence or inadvertency of theirs, in packing up the above things, and delivering them to them.