Numbers 3:30

30 The leader of {his family} according to the clans of the Kohathites [is] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

Numbers 3:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:30

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
] The same man, who, with his brother Mishael, carried Nadab and Abihu out of the camp, and buried them, ( Leviticus 10:4 Leviticus 10:5 ) ; he descended from the last and youngest of the families of the Kohathites; and some think this was one reason at least of Korah's dissatisfaction, and of his entering into a conspiracy against Moses and Aaron, because one of a younger family of his house was preferred to this dignity before him.

Numbers 3:30 In-Context

28 According to [the] number of every male from {one month} and above [there were] eight thousand six hundred keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary.

29 The clan of the descendants of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south.

30 The leader of {his family} according to the clans of the Kohathites [is] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31 Their responsibility [was] the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary, with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all of its use.

32 The {chief of the leaders} of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest [who had] oversight of those keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the house of [his] father"
• [b]. Hebrew "Kohathite"