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Numbers 4:30 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. "
Numbers 4:30
Verse in Context
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This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
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Numbers 4:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,"
Numbers 4:2
"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,"
Numbers 4:3
"From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 4:4
"This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:"
Numbers 4:5
"And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony"
Numbers 4:6
"And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves"
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