Numbers 7:9

But he gave none to the sons of Kohath, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them. They bore it upon their shoulders.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.

In Context

8And he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

10And the rulers offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the rulers offered their oblation before the altar.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, [about] the most holy things:

2 Samuel 6:3And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

2 Samuel 6:13And it was so, that, when those who bore the ark of LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

1 Chronicles 15:13For because ye did not at the first, LORD our God made a breach upon us, because we did not seek him according to the ordinance.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 7:2-10

The Offerings of the Princes. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; 2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the Lord , six covered waggons, and twelve… Read the whole commentary →

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