Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 3:33 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Of Merari {was} the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these {are} the families of Merari.”
Numbers 3:33
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And their charge {shall be} the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest {shall be} chief over the chief of the Levites, {and have} the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Of Merari {was} the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these {are} the families of Merari.
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, {were} six thousand and two hundred.
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari {was} Zuriel the son of Abihail: {these} shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
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