Numbers 3:15

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““Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.””

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BSBPD

““Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 3:15 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 1:3You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.
  2. Numbers 1:47The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.
  3. Numbers 3:22The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.
  4. Numbers 3:28The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
  5. Numbers 3:34The number of all the males a month old or more was 6,200.
  6. Numbers 3:39The total number of Levites that Moses and Aaron counted by their clans at the LORD’s command, including all the males a month old or more, was 22,000.
  7. Numbers 3:40Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.
  8. Numbers 3:43The total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.
  9. Numbers 18:15The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
  10. Numbers 26:57Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
  11. Numbers 26:62The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
  12. 2 Chronicles 31:17and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their duties and divisions.
  13. Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
  14. Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  15. Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  16. Mark 10:14But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
  17. 2 Timothy 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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