Numbers 26:62 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NLT

The men from the Levite clans who were one month old or older numbered 23,000. But the Levites were not included in the registration of the rest of the people of Israel because they were not given an allotment of land when it was divided among the Israelites.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

The total number of male Levites, 23,000, shows an increase of 1,000 on the number at Sinai (Numbers 3:39). It is doubtless to be taken…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

Twenty-three thousand.— At the former census the number was 22,000 or 22,300 (See Numbers 3:39, and Note.)

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

(See Gill on Numbers 26:57)

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It did not come under the sentence, that none of them should enter Ca…