Numbers 10:21
Then the Kohathites set off, carrying the holy objects. The Tabernacle would be put up before they arrived.
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20and Eliasaph, son of Deuel, was in charge of the tribal division of Gad.
Cross References
Numbers 1:51When it's time to move the Tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and when it's time to make camp, the Levites shall put it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
Numbers 3:27The families of Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel came from Kohath. These were the families of Kohath.
Numbers 4:15Once Aaron and his sons have finished covering these holy things and all the equipment connected with them, when the camp is ready to move, the priests of the Kohath family are to come and carry them. But they are forbidden to touch anything holy, otherwise they'll die. These are their responsibilities for moving the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 7:9He didn't give any wagons or oxen to the Kohathites because their responsibility was to carry on their shoulders the holy objects assigned to their care.
1 Chronicles 15:2Then he gave orders: “Nobody is to carry the Ark of God except the Levites, for the Lord himself chose them to carry the Ark of the Lord and to serve him forever.”
Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:12-29
The Removal of the Camp. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. 13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to… Read the whole commentary →