Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 4:46
All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered,…. [See comments on Nu 3:34].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 46-49:
The total of Levite males between the ages of thirty and fifty was 8,580. Using the formula above, this calculates the total of the tribe of Levi to be about 25,800. This was by far the smallest of Israel’s tribes. The tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200 males twenty years old and upward, which was almost four times more than the total of Levite males between thirty and fifty.
Scripture gives no explanation for the small number of Levites. This is a mystery God has reserved for His own knowledge.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Reciprocal: 2Ch 31:17 – genealogy