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 moved forward, bearing the tabernacle.

After the house

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

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male individually;
Numbers 3:47
You shall even take five shekels apiece individually, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you 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 enters into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of meeting: