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Text -- Numbers 4:32-49 (NET)
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4:32 and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets , tent pegs , and ropes , along with all their furnishings and everything for their service . You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry .
4:33 This is the service of the families of the Merarites , their entire service concerning the tent of meeting , under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest .”
Summary
4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans ,
4:35 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old , everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting ;
4:36 and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750 .
4:37 These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites , everyone who served in the tent of meeting , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses .
4:38 Those numbered from the Gershonites , by their families and by their clans ,
4:39 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old , everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting –
4:40 those of them numbered by their families , by their clans , were 2,630 .
4:41 These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites , everyone who served in the tent of meeting , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord .
4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites , by their families , by their clans ,
4:43 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old , everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting –
4:44 those of them numbered by their families were 3,200 .
4:45 These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses .
4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites , whom Moses , Aaron , and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans ,
4:47 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old , everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying relating to the tent of meeting –
4:48 those of them numbered were 8,580 .
4:49 According to the word of the Lord they were numbered , by the authority of Moses , each according to his service and according to what he was to carry . Thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Levites |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
PRIESTS AND LEVITES |
David |
Kohathites |
MERARI |
Levite |
SERVICE |
ITHAMAR |
Tabernacle |
Merarites |
Priest |
WORD |
Gershon |
PRINCE |
INSTRUMENT |
EZEKIEL, 1 |
PIN |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
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NET Notes: Num 4:32 Heb “you shall assign by names the vessels of the responsibility of their burden.”
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NET Notes: Num 4:47 The text multiplies the vocabulary of service here in the summary. In the Hebrew text the line reads literally: “everyone who came to serve the ...
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