New Revised Standard Version
The total enrollment of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron enrolled at the commandment of the LORD, by their clans, all the males from a month old and upward, was twenty-two thousand.

Contemporary English Version
So Moses and Aaron obeyed the LORD and counted the Levites by their clans. The total number of Levites at least one month old was 22,000.

New American Bible
The total enrollment of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron enrolled at the direction of the LORD, by clans, every male a month old or more, was twenty-two thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

7500, the Kohathites

8600, and the Merarites

6200, which make a total of

22,300. Several methods of solving this difficulty have been proposed by learned men. Houbigant supposes there is an error in the enumeration of the Kohathites in ver.

Numbers 3:28 All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,

; the numeral shesh, 'six,' being written instead of shalosh, 'three', before 'hundred.' Dr. Kennicott's mode of reconciling the discrepancy, however, is the most simple. He supposes that an error has crept into the number of the Gershonites in ver.

Numbers 3:22 Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred.

, where instead of

7500 we should read

7200, as caph final, which stands for

500, might have been easily mistaken for resh,

200. (Dr. Kennicott on the Hebrew Text, vol.

Numbers 3:11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

, p.212.) Either of these modes will equally reconcile the difference.

Numbers 4:47,48 From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go into the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens, . . .

Numbers 26:62 And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.

Matthew 7:14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!