Numbers 4:21

Yahweh spoke again to Moses. He said,

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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20they must not go in to see the holy place even for a moment, or they must die. Aaron and his sons must go in, and then Aaron and his sons must assign each of the Kohathites to his work, to his special tasks.”

22“Conduct a census of the descendants of Gershon also, by their ancestor's families and by their clans.

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Cross References

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.

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 →

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