Exodus 38:3

38:3 He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze.

Numbers 4:14

4:14 Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there – the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar – and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles. ¹ 

Numbers 4:1

The Service of the Kohathites

4:1 ² Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Numbers 2:13-14

2:13 Those numbered in his division are 59,300. 2:14 Next will be ³  the tribe of Gad. The leader of the people of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel. ⁴ 

Numbers 2:1

The Arrangement of the Tribes

2:1 ⁵ The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron:

Numbers 28:17

28:17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the festival. For seven days bread made without yeast must be eaten.

Numbers 28:2

28:2 “Command the Israelites: ⁶  ‘With regard to my offering, ⁷  be sure to offer ⁸  my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’ ⁹ 

Numbers 4:16

4:16 “The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has ¹⁰  the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with ¹¹  all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” ¹² 

¹ tc For this passage the Greek and Smr have a substantial addition concerning the purple cloth for the laver and its base, and a further covering of skin (see D. W. Gooding, “On the Use of the LXX for Dating Midrashic Elements in the Targums,” JTS 25 [1974]: 1-11).

² sn 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).

³ tn The Hebrew text simply has “and the tribe of Gad.”

⁴ tc The Leningrad codex, upon which BHS is based, has “Reuel” here. In reading “Deuel” the translation presented above follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, Smr, and the Latin Vulgate. Cf. Num 1:14.

⁵ sn For this chapter, see C. E. Douglas, “The Twelve Houses of Israel,” JTS 37 (1936): 49-56; C. C. Roach, “The Camp in the Wilderness: A Sermon on Numbers 2:2,” Int 13 (1959): 49-54; and G. St. Clair, “Israel in Camp: A Study,” JTS 8 (1907): 185-217.

⁶ tn Heb “and say to them.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Th sentence begins with the accusative “my offering.” It is suspended at the beginning as an independent accusative to itemize the subject matter. The second accusative is the formal object of the verb. It could also be taken in apposition to the first accusative.

⁸ tn The construction uses the imperfect tense expressing instruction, followed by the infinitive construct used to express the complement of direct object.

⁹ sn See L. R. Fisher, “New Ritual Calendar from Ugarit,” HTR 63 (1970): 485-501.

¹⁰ tn This is supplied to the line to clarify “appointed.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and.”

¹² sn One would assume that he would prepare and wrap these items, but that the Kohathites would carry them to the next place.