“Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;

This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”

See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting.

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and his son Solomon.

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

Bakbukiah and Unni, their colleagues, stood opposite them in the services.

This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve and carry it.

He gave him the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service,

When his time of service was over, he went to his home.

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

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things.

“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

‘I know your deeds: your love, faith, service, and steadfast endurance. In fact, your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones.

This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,