In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
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Gill's Exposition
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upwards, were eight thousand and six hundred,.... 8,600 men, which was the largest number of any of the houses of the Levites; but considering it…
Of the Levites, the Kohathites, the kinsmen of Moses and Aaron, and the most numerous, have the most important charge confided to them, namely, that of the ark, the altars, and the more especially…
The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe,
I. By what rule they were numbered:…
Cambridge Bible
eight thousand and six hundred This should probably be read eight thousand andthree hundred(שלש for שש); Num 3:3, and a comparison of Num 3:3 with Num 3:3, shew that the Levites numbered 22,000,…