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Numbers 2:33

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But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  1. Numbers 1:47–49Rank 1 from verse 33
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    47¶ But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

    48For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,

    49Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

  2. Numbers 26:57–62Rank 2 from verse 33
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    57¶ And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

    58These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.

    59And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

    60And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

    61And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

    62And 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.

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Numbers 2:33

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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Levites

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Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.

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numbered

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Counted, reckoned, enrolled, listed, included in a company or class, or measured as to number or extent.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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32¶ These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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34And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

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