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The Numbering of the Levites

14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai: 15 “Number the Levites by their clans[a] and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.”[b] 16 So Moses numbered them according to the word[c] of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:15 tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 20.
  2. Numbers 3:15 tn Heb “you are to/shall number them.”
  3. Numbers 3:16 tn Heb “at the mouth of the Lord.”
  4. Numbers 3:16 tn The Pual perfect may be given the past perfect translation in this sentence because the act of commanding preceded the act of numbering.