Numbers 1:48 (BSB)

For the LORD had said to Moses:

From Numbers 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 1:48

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 1:47-54: Care is here taken to distinguish from the rest of the tribes the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself, Exo 32:26. Note, Singular services shall be recompensed with singular honours. Now, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 1:48: For the Lord had spoken unto Moses,.... Not to number the Levites, when he gave him the orders to number the rest of the tribes: this is observed, lest it should be thought that this was what Moses did of himself, out of affection to the tribe he was of, and to spare it, that it might not be obliged to go forth to war...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 1:48-54: Num 1:48-54 Moses was not to muster the tribe of Levi along with the children of Israel, i.e., with the other tribes, or take their number, but to appoint the Levites for the service of the dwelling of the testimony (Exo 38:21), i.e., of the tabernacle, that they might encamp around it, might take it down when the camp was broken up, and set it...