Numbers 1:47
But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Levitæ autem in tribu familiarum suarum non sunt numerati cum eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Οἱ δὲ Λευεῖται ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς τῆς πατριᾶς αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπεσκέπησαν ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהַלְוִיִּ֖ם לְמַטֵּ֣ה אֲבֹתָ֑ם לֹ֥א הָתְפָּקְד֖וּ בְּתוֹכָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Levites. As they attended the tabernacle, like God's peculiar servants, and were not obliged to go forth to battle, it was not necessary to number them with the rest. (Calmet)
They might, however, fight if they thought proper, as the Machabees did. See Josephus, Antiquities iii. 11 and iv. 4. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.