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Numbers 26:62 Cross-References
Explore 13 cross-references for Numbers 26:62 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Numbers chapter 26 verse 62 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.”
Numbers 26:62 (KJV)
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Commentary on Numbers 26:62
Twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward—unlike other tribes (numbering warriors 20+), Levites counted infants. Why? Because Levites replaced Israel's firstborn (Numbers 3:11-13), and firstborn status begins at one month. The count of 23,000 compares to 22,000 in the first census (Numbers 3:39), a modest increase reflecting high infant mortality and wilderness judgments.For they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them—Levites' exclusion from land inheritance meant exclusion from military census. They received 48 cities...
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Cross-References for Numbers 26:62
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“neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;”
“Command the children of Israel”
“whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh”
“according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)”
“For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.”
“[even] all the tribe of Levi”
“you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.”
“You shall have no inheritance in their land”
“the God of Israel”
“the God of Israel”