Numbers 3:27-29

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²⁷Of Kohath were the families of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸The males who were numbered, every male from a month old and upward totaled ^[a]8,600, attending to the duties of the sanctuary. ²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

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Footnotes

Numbers 3:28 Some suspect that this count should be 8,300 which, when added to the 7,500 of v 22 and the 6,200 of v 34 gives the total of 22,000 in v 39. Unless the figure there was rounded, the number here may have been a copyist’s error (omitting just one letter between two that are the same in Hebrew).