Numbers 26:62
“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.”
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Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
The total number of male Levites, 23,000, shows an increase of 1,000 on the number at Sinai Num 3:39. It is doubtless to…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Numbers 26:57-62
Levi was God's tribe, a tribe that was to have no inheritance with the rest in the land of Canaan, and therefore was not…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
twenty and three thousand At the first census the Levites numbered 22,000.
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