Numbers 1:49
What does Numbers 1:49 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:49 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel.
Context
v.48For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
v.49This passage
v.50but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 26:62
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.
- Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
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