Numbers 3:15

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

Cross-references

Numbers 3:22 Historical context

Numbers 3:22 reports the count of Gershonite males a month old or more, directly fulfilling the census command given here.

Numbers 3:28 Historical context

Numbers 3:28 gives the count of Kohathite males, another clan census resulting from the command in Numbers 3:15.

Numbers 3:34 Historical context

Numbers 3:34 provides the count of Merarite males, completing the Levite clan census commanded here.

Numbers 3:39 Historical context

Numbers 3:39 totals all Levite males counted, summarizing the census that was initiated by the command in Numbers 3:15.

Numbers 3:43 reports the total of firstborn males counted, a separate census that parallels the Levite census commanded here in method and context.

Numbers 3:40 shifts to a new command to count firstborn males, using the same age threshold (a month old) as the Levite census here.

Numbers 18:16 specifies redemption value from one month old—the same age used in this census, linking the two commands directly.

Numbers 26:62 records a later Levite census also counting males from a month old, repeating the criterion established here.

Numbers 18:15 Historical context

Numbers 18:15 describes redemption of firstborn, which the Levites counted here replace—this census is the basis for that substitution.

1 Chronicles 23:24 sets Levite service at age 20—contrasting with the census of one-month-old males in Numbers 3:15.

2 Chronicles 31:17 also lists Levites from 20 years old for service—contrasting with the one-month-old census here.