Numbers 3:28
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New International Version
The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. The Kohathites were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.


English Standard Version
According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.


New American Standard Bible
In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary.


King James Bible
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.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
Counting every male one month old or more, there were 8,600 responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.


International Standard Version
all the males a month old and above numbered 8,600. They were tasked to the care of the sanctuary.


American Standard Version
According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


Douay-Rheims Bible
All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,


Darby Bible Translation
According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary.


Young's Literal Translation
In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


Commentaries
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 chosen are but a little flock in comparison with the world.

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 1:3], from which the Levites were totally exempt. But the Levites were appointed to a work on which they entered as soon as they were capable of instruction. They are mentioned under the names of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, sons of Levi, and chiefs or ancestral heads of three subdivisions into which this tribe was distributed. Their duties were to assist in the conveyance of the tabernacle when the people were removing the various encampments, and to form its guard while stationary—the Gershonites being stationed on the west, the Kohathites on the south, and the families of Merari on the north. The Kohathites had the principal place about the tabernacle, and charge of the most precious and sacred things—a distinction with which they were honored, probably, because the Aaronic family belonged to this division of the Levitical tribe. The Gershonites, being the oldest, had the next honorable post assigned them, while the burden of the drudgery was thrown on the division of Merari.
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