Numbers 4:24
“This is the work that they must do and the things that they must carry when you move to a new location:
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 3:26the ◄curtains/large pieces of cloth► that formed the walls around the courtyard that is around the tent and around the altar, the curtains that were at the entrance of the courtyard, and the ropes for fastening the tent. They also did all the work of taking care of the things outside the Sacred Tent.
Numbers 4:31Their work will be to carry the frames that hold up the tent, the crossbars, the posts that hold up the curtains, and the bases.
Numbers 4:49They/We completed the counting of all the descendants of Levi, as Yahweh had commanded Moses/me. And they/we told each man what work he was to do and what things he must carry when they moved to a new location.
Numbers 10:17Then they dismantled the Sacred Tent, and the descendants of Gershon and Merari carried it, and they went next.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:22-34
21 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; 23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering,… Read the whole commentary →