[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Numbers Overview]] [[Numbers 03]] [[Numbers 06]] # Numbers 04 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Service of the Kohathites [[#Verse 01.]] Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:  [[#Verse 02.]] “Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans, [[#Verse 03.]] from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting. [[#Verse 04.]] This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things.  [[#Verse 05.]] When it is time for the camp to journey, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.  [[#Verse 06.]] Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles. [[#Verse 07.]] “On the table of the presence they must spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.  [[#Verse 08.]] They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles. [[#Verse 09.]] “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.  [[#Verse 10.]] Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam. [[#Verse 11.]] “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.  [[#Verse 12.]] Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam.  [[#Verse 13.]] Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.  [[#Verse 14.]] Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there—the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar—and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles. [[#Verse 15.]] “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting. [[#Verse 16.]] “The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” [[#Verse 17.]] Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:  [[#Verse 18.]] “Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites; [[#Verse 19.]] but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.  [[#Verse 20.]] But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.” ### The Service of the Gershonites [[#Verse 21.]] Then the Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 22.]] “Also take a census of the Gershonites also, by their clans and by their families.  [[#Verse 23.]] You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.  [[#Verse 24.]] This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve and carry it.  [[#Verse 25.]] They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting,  [[#Verse 26.]] the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve. [[#Verse 27.]] “All the service of the Gershonites, whether carrying loads or for any of their work, will be at the direction of Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks as their responsibility.  [[#Verse 28.]] This is the service of the families of the Gershonites concerning the tent of meeting. Their responsibilities will be under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ### The Service of the Merarites [[#Verse 29.]] “As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.  [[#Verse 30.]] You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.  [[#Verse 31.]] This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,  [[#Verse 32.]] and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by name the items that each man is responsible to carry.  [[#Verse 33.]] This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.” ### Summary [[#Verse 34.]] So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans, [[#Verse 35.]] from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting;  [[#Verse 36.]] and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750.  [[#Verse 37.]] These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses. [[#Verse 38.]] Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,  [[#Verse 39.]] from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting—  [[#Verse 40.]] those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630.  [[#Verse 41.]] These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord. [[#Verse 42.]] Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,  [[#Verse 43.]] from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting—  [[#Verse 44.]] those of them numbered by their families were 3,200.  [[#Verse 45.]] These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses. [[#Verse 46.]] All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,  [[#Verse 47.]] from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying relating to the tent of meeting—  [[#Verse 48.]] those of them numbered were 8,580.  [[#Verse 49.]] According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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