Numbers 4:23

4:23 You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:2

4:2 “Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 4:7

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.


tn Heb “lift up the head.” The form נָשֹׂא (naso’) is the Qal infinitive absolute functioning here as a pure verb form. This serves to emphasize the basic verbal root idea (see GKC 346 §113.bb).

sn The Hebrew actually has the “table of faces,” and this has been traditionally rendered “table of shewbread.”

tn The Greek has “violet” instead of blue. This is also the case in vv. 8, 10, and 14.