and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

So the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the items used in its service.”

Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with.

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time.

The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.

“Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.