King James Version
Numbers 4:1 in the King James Version says “And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,”
Numbers 4:1 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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