◄ Numbers 26:62 ►
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Good News Translation
The male Levites who were one month old or older numbered 23,000. They were listed separately from the rest of the Israelites, because they were not given any property in Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and upward; for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.

Contemporary English Version
In the tribe of Levi there were 23,000 men and boys at least a month old. They were not listed with the other tribes, because they would not receive any land in Canaan.

New American Bible
The Levites enrolled were twenty-three thousand, every male one month or more of age. They were not enrolled with the other Israelites, however, for no heritage was given them among the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Numbers 26:3 Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were

Context
The Levites Numbered
…61Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before the Lord. 62And 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.
Cross References
Numbers 1:47
But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.

Numbers 1:49
Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

Numbers 3:39
All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Numbers 18:23
But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing,

Numbers 18:24
But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.

Numbers 26:63
This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan, over against Jericho.

Numbers 26:61
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