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 when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers 2:32
These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.
Numbers 3:15
"List the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list."
Numbers 4:34
And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers' houses,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
"Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
Numbers 3:47
you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),

General references

Numbers 4:35
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting;

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