Numbers 4:17

17 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge:

Numbers 4:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:17

And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron
And gave them a very solemn and awful charge about this affair of the Kohathites, it being a very hazardous one they were employed in:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 4:17 In-Context

15 And when Aaron and his sonnes haue made an ende of couerynge the sanctuary ad all the thinges of the sanctuarye agenst that the hoste remoue then the sonnes of Cahath shall come in for to bere and so let them not twich the santuary lest they dye. And this ys the charge of the sonnes of Cahath in the tabernacle of witnesse.
16 And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the preast shall haue the charge to prepare oyle for the lightes and swete cens and the dayly meatofferynge and the anoyntinge oyle and the ouersyghte of all the dwellynge and of all that therein is: both ouer the sanctuary and ouer all that pertayneth thereto.
17 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge:
18 destroye not the trybe of the kynredes of the Cahathites from amonge the leuites.
19 But thus doo vnto them that they maye lyve and not dye whe they goo vnto ye most holy place. Aaron and his sonnes shall goo in and put them euery man vnto his seruyce and vnto his burthen.
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