KJV King James Version
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
WEB World English Bible
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
ASV American Standard Version
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
Surrounding context — Numbers 2
30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
32 These [are] those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts [were] six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
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וְהַ֨לְוִיִּ֔םH3881 · le.viy.yiLeviלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotהָתְפָּקְד֔וּH6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listבְּת֖וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstבְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelכַּאֲשֶׁ֛רH834 · a.sherwhichצִוָּ֥הH6680 · tsa.vahto commandיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מֹשֶֽׁה׃H4872 · mo.shehMoses
Cross-references
Numbers 1:47-49But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.Numbers 26:57-62And these [are] they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
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