Numbers 4:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF KOHATH FROM AMONG THE SONS OF LEVI, AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS,_ Sons of Kohath ... from thirty years old and upward. This age was specifically fixed on (see the note at Numbers 8:24) as the full maturity of bodily energy to perform the laboriou... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS SHALL BE THE SERVICE OF THE SONS OF KOHATH IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, ABOUT THE MOST HOLY THINGS:_ This shall be the service ... The Kohathites are mentioned first, from their close connection with Aaron; and the special department of duty assigned to them during the journeyings o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THE OFFICE OF ELEAZAR THE SON OF AARON THE PRIEST PERTAINETH THE OIL FOR THE LIGHT, AND THE SWEET INCENSE, AND THE DAILY MEAT OFFERING, AND THE ANOINTING OIL, AND THE OVERSIGHT OF ALL THE TABERNACLE, AND OF ALL THAT THEREIN IS, IN THE SANCTUARY, AND IN THE VESSELS THEREOF._ To the office of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ Cut ye not off ... - a solemn admonition to Moses and Aaron to beware, lest, by any negligence on their part, disorder and improprieties should creep in, and to take the greatest care that all the parts of this important service be apportioned... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS IS THE SERVICE OF THE FAMILIES OF THE GERSHONITES, TO SERVE, AND FOR BURDENS:_ This is the service ... They were appointed to carry "the curtains of the tabernacle" - i:e., the goats' hair covering of the tent-the ten curious curtains and embroidered hangings at the entrance, with their red m... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS FOR THE SONS OF MERARI, THOU SHALT NUMBER THEM AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS;_ As for the sons of Merari. They carried the coarser and heavier appurtenances, which, however; were so important and necessary that an inventory was kept of them-not only on account of their num... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON AND THE CHIEF OF THE CONGREGATION NUMBERED THE SONS OF THE KOHATHITES AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, AND AFTER THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS,_ Moses and Aaron ... This enumeration was made on a different principle from that which is recorded in the preceding chapter. That was confined to t... [ Continue Reading ]