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
The tabernacle was then taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting the tabernacle.

After the house

Numbers 1:4
A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house.
Numbers 2:32
These are the Israelites registered by their ancestral houses. The total number in the camps by their military divisions is 603,550.
Numbers 3:15
“Register the Levites by their ancestral houses and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.”
Numbers 4:34
So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.
Numbers 3:47
collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel—20 gerahs to the shekel.

General references

Numbers 4:35
men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

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