The Levites, however, were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them.
Numbers 26:62 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and up, for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And those numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the Israelites, because there was no inheritance given them among the Israelites. American Standard Version (1901) And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. Common English Bible Their enrollment was 23,000, consisting of every male one month old and above. They weren’t enrolled with the Israelites because no inheritance of land was given to them among the Israelites. Catholic Public Domain Version And these were all who were numbered: twenty-three thousand of the male gender, from one month and above. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the others. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward. For they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest. |
The Levites, however, were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them.
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not enroll, and you shall not take a census of them with the other Israelites.
These were those enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who enrolled the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
The total enrollment of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron enrolled at the commandment of the Lord, by their clans, all the males from a month old and up, was twenty-two thousand.
All the service of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do, and you shall assign to them as duties all that they are to carry.
Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance with his kindred; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)
To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance; the offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to them.
But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them.
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.