And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
thirty years
Numbers 8:24-26 This is it that belongs to the Levites…
Genesis 41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king …
1 Chronicles 23:3,24-27 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: …
1 Chronicles 28:12,13 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of …
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as …
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …
enter
2 Kings 11:4-12 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, …
2 Chronicles 23:1-11 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the …
2 Corinthians 10:3,4 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh…
Ephesians 6:10-18 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might…
1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies …
to do
Numbers 3:7,8 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation …
Numbers 16:9 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated …
1 Chronicles 6:48 Their brothers also the Levites were appointed to all manner of service …
1 Chronicles 23:4,5,28-32 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of …
1 Timothy 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he …
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
and when
Numbers 2:16,17 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand …
Numbers 10:14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children …
Aaron shall come. The law prohibiting any person, except the high priest on one day in the year, to enter into the most holy place, must have admitted an exception while the Israelites were in the wilderness; that exception, therefore, is here expressly made; and the directions given respecting it must be religiously observed, or the service could not be safely performed. While the cloud rested on the tabernacle, the general rule was in force; but when it was removed, then the priests might enter to prepare the sacred vessels for removal.
Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …
Numbers 3:27-32 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of …
they shall
Exodus 26:31-33 And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine …
Exodus 36:35 And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined …
Exodus 40:3 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the …
Isaiah 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast …
Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top …
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through …
and cover
Exodus 25:10-22 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half …
Exodus 37:1-9 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half …
2 Samuel 6:2-9 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him …
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
badgers' skins. This was not the covering of badgers' skins made for the tabernacle, which was carried by the Gershonites, but one made for the purpose of concealing and sheltering the ark when it was to be carried. a cloth.
Numbers 4:7,8,11-13 And on the table of show bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, …
Exodus 35:19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy …
Exodus 39:1,41 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, …
and shall put, Wesamoo baddaiv, rather, 'and adjust the staves thereof;' i.e. dispose them rightly under the covering, that they might be laid on their shoulders; for the staves were never taken out of the rings. the staves
Exodus 25:13-15 And you shall make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold…
1 Kings 8:7,8 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the …
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
Numbers 4:7,9 And on the table of show bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, …
Numbers 3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the …
Exodus 25:9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, …
Exodus 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, …
2 Kings 25:14,15 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, …
1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all …
1 Chronicles 4:11,16,19,22 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton…
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
The embers of the sacred fire seem to have been removed in the grate, which was carried apart from the brazen altar; both being covered from view by purple cloths.
Numbers 4:6-9,11,12 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread …
Exodus 27:3-5 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, …
Exodus 39:1,41 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, …
Leviticus 6:12,13 And the fire on the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be …
And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
after that
Numbers 7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none…
Numbers 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other …
Deuteronomy 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons …
Joshua 4:10 For the priests which bore the ark stood in the middle of Jordan…
2 Samuel 6:13 And it was so, that when they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone …
1 Chronicles 15:2,15 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: …
they shall
Numbers 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even …
Exodus 19:12 And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take …
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into …
2 Samuel 6:6,7 And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his …
1 Chronicles 13:9,10 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth …
Hebrews 12:18-29 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that …
these things
Numbers 3:30,31 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites …
And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
the office. Eleazar himself, perhaps with the other priests, was required to carry the oil for the light, the incense, and the flour for the daily meat offering, and the holy ointment; besides superintending the Levites. It may be supposed, that he himself carried no more of the oil than for present use
Numbers 3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief …
the oil
Exodus 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exodus 27:20,21 And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you …
Leviticus 24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive …
the sweet
Exodus 30:34-38 And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and …
the daily
Exodus 29:39-41 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you …
the anointing
Exodus 30:23-33 Take you also to you principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred …
the oversight
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach …
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards …
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man …
Hebrews 3:1,6 Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the …
1 Peter 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd …
1 Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and …
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the Kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see.
Numbers 16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their …
Numbers 17:10 And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, …
Numbers 18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of …
Exodus 19:21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they …
Leviticus 10:1,2 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, …
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into …
2 Samuel 6:6,7 And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his …
Jeremiah 38:23 So they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans: …
But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
they shall
Numbers 4:15,19 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …
Exodus 19:21 And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they …
Leviticus 10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they …
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into …
Hebrews 10:19,20 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by …
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in …
the holy things. Haakkodesh, 'the holy' or 'sanctuary' i.e. the ark, as the Jews generally understand it; and with good reason, as any one may be convinced, who compared
1 Kings 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen …
2 Chronicles 5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves …
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
thirty years
Numbers 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
to perform the service. Heb. to war the warfare
Numbers 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
Isaiah 63:1-4 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Romans 7:14-24 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin…
1 Corinthians 9:7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, …
2 Corinthians 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness …
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh…
Ephesians 6:10-19 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might…
Galatians 5:17,24 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the …
1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies …
2 Timothy 2:3,4 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ…
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
service. Heb. warfare
Numbers 4:3,23 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
Psalm 110:1-7 The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make …
1 Timothy 6:11,12 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …
2 Timothy 2:4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; …
2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith…
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers 4:3,23,30,39,43,47 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
Numbers 8:24-26 This is it that belongs to the Levites…
1 Chronicles 23:3,24,26,27 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: …
1 Chronicles 28:13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all …
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as …
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …
And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
In the third chapter we have an account of the whole number of the Levites; and here of those only who were able to serve the Lord in the sanctuary. We find that the whole number of the Levites amounted to
These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.
And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
according to the
Numbers 4:37,41,45 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, …
Numbers 1:54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded …
Numbers 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as …
Numbers 3:51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed to Aaron and …
every one
Numbers 4:16,24,31 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertains …
Isaiah 11:2-4 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom …
Isaiah 42:1-7 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …
Isaiah 49:1-8 Listen, O isles, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD …
Romans 12:4-8 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not …
and the Lord
Numbers 4:1,21 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying…
