Numbers 1:47
Good News Translation
The Levites were not registered with the other tribes,

New Revised Standard Version
The Levites, however, were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them.

Contemporary English Version
But those from the Levi tribe were not included

New American Bible
Now the Levites were not enrolled by their ancestral tribe with the others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.

Numbers 1:3,50 From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron. . . .

Numbers 2:33 And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:1 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.

Numbers 4:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 8:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 26:57-62 This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites. . . .

1 Chronicles 6:1 The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.

Context
The Exemption of the Levites
47But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.48And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:…
Cross References
Numbers 1:48
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 2:33
And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:14
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:

Numbers 3:15
Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.

Numbers 4:49
Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him.

Numbers 26:57
This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites.

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.

Numbers 1:46
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