Numbers 7:9

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

8Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to their necessity.

10But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:4This is the service of the sons of Caath:

2 Samuel 6:3And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa: and Oza, and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

2 Samuel 6:13And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a ram:

1 Chronicles 15:13Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law.

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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