Numbers 3:8

and let them take care of the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in its ministry.

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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

7and let them observe whatever pertains to the ritual for the multitude, in front of the tabernacle of the testimony,

9And you shall give the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons; for they have been delivered to them by the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:28This is the service of the family of the Gershonites, in the tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 10:17And the tabernacle was taken down, because the sons of Gershon and Merari, who carry it, were departing.

1 Chronicles 23:27Also, according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi shall be counted by number from twenty years of age and upward.

2 Chronicles 29:11My sons, do not choose to be negligent. The Lord has chosen you so that you would stand before him, and minister to him, and worship him, and burn incense to him.”

Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, get out of here! Do not be willing to touch what is polluted. Go out from her midst! Be cleansed, you who bear 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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