Numbers 3:8

And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of the testimony,

9And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,

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Cross References

Numbers 4:28This is the service of the family of the Gersonites 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, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.

1 Chronicles 23:27So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty years old and upward.

2 Chronicles 29:11My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense to him.

Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry 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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