7500, the Kohathites

8600, and the Merarites

6200, which make a total of

22,300. Several methods of solving this difficulty have been proposed by learned men. Houbigant supposes there is an error in the enumeration of the Kohathites in ver.

民數記 3:28
按所有男子的數目，從一個月以外看守聖所的，共有八千六百名。

; the numeral shesh, 'six,' being written instead of shalosh, 'three', before 'hundred.' Dr. Kennicott's mode of reconciling the discrepancy, however, is the most simple. He supposes that an error has crept into the number of the Gershonites in ver.

民數記 3:22
其中被數，從一個月以外所有的男子，共有七千五百名。

, where instead of

7500 we should read

7200, as caph final, which stands for

500, might have been easily mistaken for resh,

200. (Dr. Kennicott on the Hebrew Text, vol.

民數記 3:11
耶和華曉諭摩西說：

, p.212.) Either of these modes will equally reconcile the difference.

民數記 4:47,48
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民數記 26:62
利未人中，凡一個月以外，被數的男丁，共有二萬三千。他們本來沒有數在以色列人中，因為在以色列人中，沒有分給他們產業。

馬太福音 7:14
引到永生，那門是窄的，路是小的，找著的人也少。