Levites Exempted

47 (A)The Levites, however, were not counted among them by their fathers’ tribe.

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47 The ancestral tribe of the Levites,(A) however, was not counted(B) along with the others.

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57 (A)These are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. (B)Kohath fathered Amram. 59 And the name of Amram’s wife (C)was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and their sister Miriam. 60 (D)And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 61 (E)But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered [a]strange fire before the Lord. 62 Those who were numbered of them were (F)twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for (G)they were not numbered among the sons of Israel (H)since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.

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  1. Numbers 26:61 I.e., prohibited

57 These were the Levites(A) who were counted by their clans:

through Gershon, the Gershonite clan;

through Kohath, the Kohathite clan;

through Merari, the Merarite clan.

58 These also were Levite clans:

the Libnite clan,

the Hebronite clan,

the Mahlite clan,

the Mushite clan,

the Korahite clan.

(Kohath was the forefather of Amram;(B) 59 the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed,(C) a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites[a] in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses(D) and their sister(E) Miriam.(F) 60 Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.(G) 61 But Nadab and Abihu(H) died when they made an offering before the Lord with unauthorized fire.)(I)

62 All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000.(J) They were not counted(K) along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance(L) among them.(M)

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  1. Numbers 26:59 Or Jochebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi