Numbers 3:15

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

Number {H6485} the children {H1121} of Levi {H3878} after the house {H1004} of their fathers {H1}, by their families {H4940}: every male {H2145} from a month {H2320} old {H1121} and upward {H4605} shalt thou number {H6485} them.

"Take a census of the tribe of Levi by clans and families. Count every male a month old or over."

“Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.”

Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

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Cross-References

  • Numbers 26:62 (4 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Timothy 3:15 (3 votes)

    And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Jeremiah 2:2 (2 votes)

    Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.

  • Numbers 3:43 (2 votes)

    And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

  • Numbers 3:28 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Mark 10:14 (2 votes)

    But when Jesus saw [it], he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

  • Numbers 18:15 (2 votes)

    Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.