Exodus 32:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

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  • Deut 33:9 : 9 Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.
  • Mal 2:4-6 : 4 And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies. 5 My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name. 6 True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
  • Heb 2:2-3 : 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Num 16:32-35 : 32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people. 34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth. 35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.
  • Num 16:41 : 41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

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  • Exod 32:26-27
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    26Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

    27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.

  • Exod 32:29-30
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    29And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.

    30And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.

  • Num 3:15-16
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    15Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

    16So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.

  • Num 3:38-39
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    38And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

    39All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.

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    3So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

  • 1 Chr 23:3
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    3And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

  • Num 4:44
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    44Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred.

  • Num 3:11
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    11And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 8:20
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    20All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did.

  • Num 3:42-44
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    42So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.

    43Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.

    44And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 25:9-10
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    9But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

    10And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 7:4
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    4So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

  • Num 2:33
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    33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • 1 Cor 10:8
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    8Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

  • 1 Chr 12:26
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    26Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

  • Deut 27:11
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    11That same day Moses said to the people,

  • Num 31:31
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    31So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

  • Exod 19:21
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    21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • Num 3:5
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    5And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

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    16And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites.

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    22And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

    23And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 25:5
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    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

  • Num 16:8
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    8And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

  • Num 31:1
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    1Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:7
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    7And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

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    33And the holy things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

  • Lev 24:23
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    23And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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    34Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

  • Num 31:40
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    40And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

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    28Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

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    16So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

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    21Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

  • Ps 78:31
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    31The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

  • Num 15:36
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    36So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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    62Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.