Numbers 7:9

But to the sons of Kohath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.

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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

8And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their ministrations, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

10And the rulers brought gifts for the dedication of the altar, in the day in which he anointed it, and the rulers brought their gifts before the altar.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:4And these are the works of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy.

2 Samuel 6:3And they put the ark of the Lord on a new wagon, and took it out of the house of Abinadab who lived on the hill: and Uzzah and his brethren the sons of Abinadab drove the wagon with the ark.

2 Samuel 6:13And there were with him bearing the ark seven bands, and for a sacrifice a calf and lambs.

1 Chronicles 15:13For because ye were not ready at the first, our God made a breach upon us, because we sought him not according to the ordinance.

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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