The Exemption of the Levites
Numbers 1:49
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
- KJV
- Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
- WEB
- “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
- ASV
- Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
- LSV
- “Only the tribe of Levi you do not number, and you do not take up their census in the midst of the sons of Israel;
- YLT
- '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;
- DBY
- Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel.
- DRC
- Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:
- GNV
- Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel:
- JPS
- 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
- LXXE
- See, thou shalt not muster the tribe of Levi, and thou shalt not take their numbers, in the midst of the children of Israel.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֣ךְ אֶת־מַטֵּ֤ה לֵוִי֙ לֹ֣א תִפְקֹ֔ד וְאֶת־רֹאשָׁ֖ם לֹ֣א תִשָּׂ֑א בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
- LXX-Br
- ὅρα, τὴν φυλὴν Λευὶ οὐ συνεπισκέψῃ, καὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν αὐτῶν οὐ λήμῃ, ἐν μέσῳ υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
CensusSoldiersEgyptIsrael, History ofNumbers, Book ofLevites, TheLaw in the Old TestamentArmiesIsraelNumber
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Cross-references most cited first
- Numbers 26:62The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
- Numbers 2:33But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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