Numbers 3:8
They must serve all the Israeli people by taking care of all the things that are inside the Sacred Tent.
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Cross References
Numbers 4:28Those are the tasks that you must give to the men who belong to the clans descended from Gershom. Aaron’s son Ithamar is the one who will supervise their work.
Numbers 10:17Then they dismantled the Sacred Tent, and the descendants of Gershon and Merari carried it, and they went next.
1 Chronicles 23:27Obeying the final instructions of David before he died, instructions for doing this work at the temple, they counted only the descendants of Levi who were at least 20 years old.
2 Chronicles 29:11You who are like my sons, do not waste any time. Do immediately what Yahweh wants you to do. Yahweh has chosen you to stand in his presence and offer sacrifices and burn incense.”
Isaiah 52:11So, leave the places where you were taken to when you were captured, where everything is unacceptable to God. You men who carry the items used for the worship of Yahweh, leave there and return to Jerusalem, and purify yourselves in order to be acceptable to worship God.
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 →