Numbers 4:46 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,”

Numbers 4:46

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Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

These {be} those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

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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 with it:"

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 thereof."

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