Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 4:23 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. {to perform...: Heb. to war the warfare}”
Numbers 4:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. {to perform...: Heb. to war the warfare}
This {is} the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: {burdens: or, carriage}
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that {is} above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
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