Numberi 3:16

16 En Mozes telde hen naar het bevel des HEEREN, gelijk hem geboden was.

Numberi 3:16 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:16

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord,
&c.] Took the account of all of a month old in the several houses and families of the tribe of Levi; though Moses is only here mentioned, yet it seems from ( Numbers 3:39 ) ; that Aaron was concerned with him in it; yea, in an after numbering of the Levites who were fit for business from thirty to fifty years of age, the chief of the children of Israel were assisting to him and Aaron, ( Numbers 4:46 ) ; as he commanded;
he was obedient to the divine will in all things, and so in this, though it was his own tribe and his own posterity, which in all successive ages were to be no other than ministering servants to the priests, and to have no inheritance in the land of Israel.

Numberi 3:16 In-Context

14 En de HEERE sprak tot Mozes in de woestijn van Sinai, zeggende:

15 Tel de zonen van Levi naar het huis hunner vaderen, naar hun geslachten, al wat mannelijk is, van een maand oud en daarboven, die zult gij tellen.

16 En Mozes telde hen naar het bevel des HEEREN, gelijk hem geboden was.

17 Dit nu waren de zonen van Levi met hun namen: Gerson, en Kahath, en Merari.

18 En dit zijn de namen der zonen van Gerson, naar hun geslachten: Libni en Simei.