🔢WEB · Numbers 4:48
What does Numbers 4:48 mean?
"even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty."
— Numbers 4:48 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.
According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Explanation
Numbers 4:48 gives the final total in a census that God commanded
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