Numbers 4:33

33 This shall be the service of the families of the sons of Merari for all their ministry, in the tabernacle of the testimony, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 4:33 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:33

This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
&c.] The Mahlites and Mushites, namely, the service before observed, the particulars of which are given:

according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation;
agreeably to what was allotted to them in that part of the tabernacle they were concerned in:

under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest;
who had the oversight of these as well as of the Gershonites, as Eleazar had of the Kohathites; though as Eleazar was the chief of the tribe of Levi, it is thought that Ithamar acted under him, ( Numbers 3:32 ) .

Numbers 4:33 In-Context

31 And this shall be the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the testimony: the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and sockets thereof,

32 and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their stakes and their cords with all their instruments and with all their service; and ye shall number by name the vessels of the charge of their burden.

33 This shall be the service of the families of the sons of Merari for all their ministry, in the tabernacle of the testimony, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

34 So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of Kohath after their families and after the houses of their fathers,

35 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.