Numbers 1:54 (BSB)
Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
From Numbers 1. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 1:54
- 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 1:54: And the children of Israel did according to all the Lord commanded Moses,.... Pitched their tents by their own camps and standards; did not come near the tabernacle but kept at a proper distance from it, and did not meddle with things they had no concern, with, and which were peculiar to the Levites: so they did; which is repeated to show how readily, punctually...
- 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...