Numbers 3:28
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:28 in other translations
| BSB | The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary. |
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| WEB | According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary. |
| ASV | According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. |
| YLT | In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. |
| DARBY | According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary. |
| BBE | Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. |
| Webster | In the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. |
What does Numbers 3:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14-31
14-31. Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious. In the other tribes the survey was made for purposes of war [Nu…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 3:14-39
The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Moses did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure any honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's…
Numbers 3:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 3:28
- Numbers 3:7
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- Numbers 3:31
And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
- Numbers 4:35-36
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
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Context
- Numbers 3:27
And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
- Numbers 3:28
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
- Numbers 3:29
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers 3:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por la cuenta de todos los varones de un mes arriba, eran ocho mil y seiscientos, que tenían la guarda del santuario. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | en comptant tous les mâles, depuis l’âge d’un mois et au-dessus, il y en eut 8 600, qui avaient la charge du lieu saint. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Nach der Zahl aller Männlichen von einem Monat und darüber, 8600, welche der Hut des Heiligtums warteten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnes generis masculini ab uno mense et supra, octo millia sexcenti habebunt excubias sanctuarii, |