Numbers 4:3
Count men aged thirty to fifty—all who are entitled to do the work of serving in the Tent of Meeting.
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In Context
4This work that they are to do in the Tent of Meetings involves the things that are most holy.
Cross References
Numbers 1:3Those aged twenty or older who can do military service are to be registered by you and Aaron in their Israelite army divisions.
Numbers 3:7They are to carry out duties on his behalf and for all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting, looking after the service of the Tabernacle.
Numbers 4:30Count men aged thirty to fifty—all who are entitled to do the work of serving in the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:47They counted men aged thirty to fifty—all who were entitled to do the work of serving in the Tent of Meeting and carrying it.
Numbers 16:9Do you think it's something insignificant that the God of Israel chose you from all the other Israelites and allowed you to approach him and carry out the work in the Lord's Tabernacle, to stand before the Israelites and serve them?
1 Chronicles 6:48The other Levites carried out all the other functions in the Tabernacle, the house of God.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21
The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →