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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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BAR. pole. Compare Numbers 13:23....
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The Kohathites and their duties....
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When finally ready for the march the burden of the Kohathites would be
seen simply as six large packages as follows. (i) The _Ark_(Numbers
4:5 f.), covered with the -veil of the screen" (see on Number...
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UPON A BAR— The original word signifies _a bearer,_ and therefore it
would be more properly rendered _a bier._...
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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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_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...
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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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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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UPON A BAR. — Better, _upon a pole, or frame made for bearing._
(Comp. Numbers 13:23, where the same word _mot_ is rendered “a
staff.”)...
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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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And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of
badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a (e) bar.
(e) The Hebrew word signifies an instrument made of two staves or
bars....
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_The bars, which were not attached to it, Exodus xxv. 37. Hebrew and
Septuagint, "They shall place it upon the bars." Mot, signifies a
stick, upon which two people may carry burdens, chap. xiii. 24. I...
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Reader! observe the repeated precept, as to covering the different
vessels in the tabernacle. Then call to mind, what the apostle saith
of the darkness of that ministration, and learn to bless GOD for...
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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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AND THEY SHALL PUT IT, AND ALL THE VESSELS THEREOF, WITHIN A COVERING
OF BADGERS' SKINS,.... Which here also was the outermost covering; the
ark and the shewbread table had three coverings, but the ca...
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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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and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of
badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar, a stretcher-like
conveyance....
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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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So contrived that this cloth containing the candlestick &c., might be
either laid upon it, or some other way fastened to it....
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CHAPTER 4 THE TASKS OF THE LEVITES.
In this chapter the special tasks allotted to the priests and to each
of the sub-tribes of Levi are described, and the number of Levites
between thirty and fifty ...
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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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Numbers 4:12; Numbers 4:6...