Numbers 4:23
Context4:23 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
Context4:2 “Take a census 1 of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,
Numbers 4:7
Context4:7 “On the table of the presence 2 they must spread a blue 3 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.
[4:2] 1 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).
[4:7] 2 sn The Hebrew actually has the “table of faces,” and this has been traditionally rendered “table of shewbread.”
[4:7] 3 tn The Greek has “violet” instead of blue. This is also the case in vv. 8, 10, and 14.