Numbers 7:9

But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.

Revised Version 1895

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 unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

10And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their oblation before the altar.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things:

2 Samuel 6:3And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.

2 Samuel 6:13And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

1 Chronicles 15:13For because ye bare it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that 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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