Numbers 1:47
New International Version
The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others.

New Living Translation
But this total did not include the Levites.

English Standard Version
But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.

Berean Standard Bible
The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

King James Bible
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

New King James Version
But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe;

New American Standard Bible
The Levites, however, were not counted among them by their fathers’ tribe.

NASB 1995
The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.

NASB 1977
The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.

Legacy Standard Bible
The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.

Amplified Bible
The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe.

Christian Standard Bible
But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

American Standard Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Levites and the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But the Levites of the tribe of their family were not counted among the children of Israel.

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

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

English Revised Version
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the households from the tribe of [Levi] were not registered along with the other Israelites.

Good News Translation
The Levites were not registered with the other tribes,

International Standard Version
The descendants of Levi were not counted according to their ancestral houses

JPS Tanakh 1917
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Literal Standard Version
And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

Majority Standard Bible
The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

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

NET Bible
But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

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

New Heart English Bible
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the Levites, after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

World English Bible
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

Young's Literal Translation
And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

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Context
The Exemption of the Levites
47The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers. 48For the LORD had said to Moses:…

Cross References
Numbers 1:48
For the LORD had said to Moses:

Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:14
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Numbers 3:15
"Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more."

Numbers 4:49
At the LORD's command they were numbered through Moses and each one was assigned his work and burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 26:57
Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.

Numbers 26:62
The 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.


Treasury of Scripture

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Numbers 1:3,50
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies…

Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:1
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

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Verse 47. - Not numbered among them. They were numbered (Numbers 3:39), but not among the rest; their census was taken separately, and on a different basis.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The Levites, however,
וְהַלְוִיִּ֖ם (wə·hal·wî·yim)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

were not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

registered
הָתְפָּקְד֖וּ (hā·ṯə·pā·qə·ḏū)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit

with
בְּתוֹכָֽם׃ (bə·ṯō·w·ḵām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

the tribe
לְמַטֵּ֣ה (lə·maṭ·ṭêh)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

of their fathers.
אֲבֹתָ֑ם (’ă·ḇō·ṯām)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father


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