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 pulled up stakes, carrying the tabernacle.

After the house

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

By their polls

Numbers 1:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, according to their families, by their fathers' house, with the number of names, every male by their heads,
Numbers 3:47
you shall even take five shekels each by the head, according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take. (The shekel is twenty gerahs.)

General references

Numbers 4:35
They numbered them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that entered into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.