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CHAPTER 4
The Service of the Levites and their Numbering
_ 1. The children of Kohath; their service (Numbers 4:1)_
2. The sons of Gershon; their service (Numbers 4:21)
3. The sons of Merari; their...
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A CENSUS OF THE LEVITES QUALIFIED TO SERVE ABOUT THE TABERNACLE, AND
THE APPORTIONMENT OF THEIR DUTIES. This census includes all males
between 30 and 50 (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 23:3). In Numbers 8:23 the...
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The Kohathites and their duties....
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CUT YE NOT OFF THE TRIBE, &C.— The meaning of this, as explained in
the following verses, is, "Do not, by omitting to instruct the
Kohathites what they are to do in the service to which they are
appoi...
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VI. MARCHING DUTIES ASSIGNED TO THE LEVITE FAMILIES (NUMBERS 4)
A. THE KOHATHITES vv. 1-20
TEXT
Numbers 4:1. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2. Take
the sum of the sons of Levi, afte...
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_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...
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THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES ON THE MARCH
2. Kohath seems to have been the second son of Levi (Numbers 3:17),
but his family is mentioned first, because Moses and Aaron belonged to
it (Numbers 3:19 cp. E...
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CUT NOT OFF] see that you do not expose them to any risk of death by
touching the most holy things: cp. Romans 14:15....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 4
THE DUTIES OF KOHATH’S *CLAN – NUMBERS 4:1-20
V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, V2-3 ‘K
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CUT YE NOT OFF THE TRIBE... — The word _shebet_ (tribe) is here used
in a very peculiar sense, and denotes one division only of the tribe
of Levi. In this and the following verses the injunction alrea...
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אַל ־תַּכְרִ֕יתוּ אֶת ־שֵׁ֖בֶט
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַ...
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Continuing the instructions concerning the Levites, we have a minute
account of their work in connection with the movement and marching of
the people. The family of Kohath were made responsible for ca...
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(l) Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from
among the Levites:
(l) Committing by your negligence that the holy things are not well
wrapped, causing them to perish by touching...
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The service of the Kohathites is striking. They were to carry the holy
things of the tabernacle. It was dangerous to go into the holy place,
for GOD had commanded that this should he done only once in...
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It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without
feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And
this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
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Next in order come the arrangements prescribed for the carrying of the
things which the tabernacle contained, as well as their coverings,
when the camp journeyed in the wilderness. I shall point out w...
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CUT YE NOT OFF THE TRIBE OF THE FAMILIES OF THE KOHATHITES FROM AMONG
THE LEVITES. Or give no occasion, as the Targum of Jonathan; or be not
the cause of their cutting off, as Jarchi, through negligen...
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_Cut not off_ Do not by your neglect, provoke God to cut them off for
touching the holy things. _Every one to his service_ To that which is
peculiarly allotted to him, the services and burdens being e...
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1 The age and time of the Leuites seruice.
4 The carriage of the Kohathites when the Priestes haue taken downe
the Tabernacle.
16 The charge of Eleazar.
17 The office of the Priests.
21 The carria...
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THE WORK OF THE KOHATHITES...
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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among
the Levites; they should beware of giving them occasion to transgress
the Lord's command and thus bring upon themselves His destru...
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THE SERVICE OF THE KOHATHITES
(vs.1-20)
Moses and Aaron are instructed in verse 2 to take a census of the sons
of Korath, those males 30 to 50 years of age. In verses 21-22 the same
is said as to th...
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4-20 The Kohathites were to carry the holy things of the tabernacle.
All the holy things were to be covered; not only for security and
respect, but to keep them from being seen. This not only marked t...
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i.e. Do not by your neglect provoke God to cut them off for touching
the holy things....
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THE TAKING OF THE SUM OF THE LEVITES AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
(NUMBERS 4:15).
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SONS OF KOHATH (NUMBERS 4:15).
Numbers 4:15
‘And when Aaron and his sons have made an end o...
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Numbers 4:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after
their families, by the house of their fathers,_
There were th...
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CONTENTS: The service of the Kohathrites, Gershonites and Merarites.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron.
CONCLUSION: There is a service appointed to each of God's people in
connection with His Church, an...
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Numbers 4:3. _Thirty years old._ We read in chap. 8., that the levites
began to learn as is understood, at the age of twenty five. From 1
Chronicles 23., we learn that the census was taken at the age...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 4:1 Levites between 30 and 50 years old were
responsible for moving the tabernacle from campsite to campsite. This
chapter specifies what each Levitical clan must do (vv. Numbe...
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Critical Notes.— Numbers 4:3. צָבָא, _host_, “signifies
military service, and is used here with special reference to the
service of the Levites as the _militia sacra_ of Jehovah.”—_Keil
and Del_.
Numb...
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EXPOSITION
THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 4:1).
NUMBERS 4:2
TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF KOHATH. The Levites having been separated
from the other tribes, the Kohathites are now
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Now in chapter four we find that from the tribe of Kohath the men that
were to actually do the service of carrying and all, of course they
numbered them from a month old upwards. It's obvious that lit...
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1 Samuel 6:19; 2 Samuel 6:6; 2 Samuel 6:7; Exodus 19:21; Jeremiah
38:23
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Cut not off — Do not by your neglect provoke God to cut them off for
touching the holy things....