Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

The sons of levi

By their polls

General references

Bible References

The sons of levi

Numbers 10:17
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bare the tabernacle, set forward.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers house.
Numbers 2:32
These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 3:15
Number the children of Levi by their fathers houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Numbers 4:34
And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers houses,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
Numbers 3:47
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

General references

Numbers 4:35
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting:

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