Numbers 3:8

They must care for all the furnishings in the tent of meeting, and they must help the tribes of Israel to carry out the tabernacle service.

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And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

In Context

7They must perform the duties on behalf of Aaron and the whole community before the tent of meeting. They must serve in the tabernacle.

9You must give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. They are wholly given to help him serve the people of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:28This is the service of the clans of the descendants of the Gershonites for the tent of meeting. Ithamar son of Aaron the priest must lead them in their service.

Numbers 10:17The descendants of Gershon and of Merari, who cared for the tabernacle, took down the tabernacle and then set out on their journey.

1 Chronicles 23:27For by David's last words the Levites were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

2 Chronicles 29:11My sons, do not be lazy now, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to worship him, and that you should be his servants and burn incense.”

Isaiah 52:11Leave, leave, go out from there; touch nothing unclean; 1 leave from her midst; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh. 1

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 →

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