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Text -- Numbers 4:1-12 (NET)
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The Service of the Kohathites
4:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron :
4:2 “Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites , by their families and by their clans ,
4:3 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old , all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting .
4:4 This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting , relating to the most holy things .
4:5 When it is time for the camp to journey , Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.
4:6 Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue , and then they must insert its poles .
4:7 “On the table of the presence they must spread a blue cloth , and put on it the dishes , the pans , the bowls , and the pitchers for pouring , and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually .
4:8 They must spread over them a scarlet cloth , and cover the same with a covering of fine leather ; and they must insert its poles .
4:9 “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light , with its lamps , its wick-trimmers , its trays , and all its oil vessels , with which they service it.
4:10 Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather , and put it on a carrying beam .
4:11 “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar , and cover it with a covering of fine leather ; and they must insert its poles .
4:12 Then they must take all the utensils of the service , with which they serve in the sanctuary , put them in a blue cloth , cover them with a covering of fine leather , and put them on a carrying beam .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Priest |
Levites |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
David |
Kohathites |
PRIESTS AND LEVITES |
Altar |
Tabernacle |
Colors |
Skin |
Badger |
PORPOISE |
Skin, Coats made of |
Ark |
Blue |
COVER; COVERING |
Lampstand |
Tongs |
SHEWBREAD, THE |
EZEKIEL, 1 |
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NET Notes: Num 4:1 The chapter has four main parts to it: Kohathites (1-20), Gershonites (21-28), Merarites (29-33) and the census of the Levites (34-49).
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NET Notes: Num 4:2 The census of chapter 3 was to register all male Levites from a month old and up. It arranged the general duties of each of the tribes. The second cen...
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NET Notes: Num 4:3 The word “company” is literally “host, army” (צָבָא, tsava’). The repetition of similar ex...
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NET Notes: Num 4:4 The Hebrew text simply has “the holy of holies,” or “the holy of the holy things” (קֹדֶשׁ ...
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NET Notes: Num 4:5 The Hebrew text uses the infinitive construct in an adverbial clause of time; literally it says “in the journeying of the camp.” The genit...
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NET Notes: Num 4:6 The exact meaning of the Hebrew word here is difficult to determine. The term תַּחַשׁ (takhash) has been tra...
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NET Notes: Num 4:7 The Greek has “violet” instead of blue. This is also the case in vv. 8, 10, and 14.
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