King James Version
Numbers 1:48 in the King James Version says “For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,”
Numbers 1:48 · KJV
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“had spoken”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“For the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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