Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 3:28 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, {were} eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.”
Numbers 3:28
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which {is} by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
And of Kohath {was} the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these {are} the families of the Kohathites.
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, {were} eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites {shall be} Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
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