Numbers 4:1-2

The Service of the Kohathites

4:1 ¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 4:2 “Take a census ²  of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

[4:1]  ¹ 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).

[4:2]  ² 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).