Numbers 3:8

And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

In Context

7In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

9Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:28This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 10:17Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.

1 Chronicles 23:27So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

2 Chronicles 29:11My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

Isaiah 52:11Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:2-14

The Separation of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord , when they offered strange fire before the Lord , in the wilderness of Sinai, and… Read the whole commentary →

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