Numbers 3:30
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers 3:30 in other translations
| BSB | and the leader of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel. |
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| WEB | The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
| ASV | And the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
| YLT | And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel. |
| DARBY | And the prince of the father's house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
| BBE | Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. |
| Webster | And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. |
What does Numbers 3:30 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 3:30 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 3:29
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
- Numbers 3:30
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
- 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 3:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y el jefe de la casa del padre de las familias de Coath, Elisaphán hijo de Uzziel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et le prince de la maison de père des familles des Kehathites était Élitsaphan, fils d’Uziel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und der Fürst des Vaterhauses der Familien der Kehathiter war Elizaphan, der Sohn Ussiels. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Princepsque eorum erit Elisaphan filius Oziel: |