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Numbers 4:3 KJV
Numbers · chapter 4 · verse 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 4:3 · King James Version
Numbers 4:3 in context
1And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3From 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.
4This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
5And 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:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tabernacleʼôhela tentH168 →
- thirtyshᵉlôwshîymthirtyH7970 →
- upwardmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
- enterbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God's peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now observe, I. Who were to be taken into this number.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-20