Numbers 4:33

33 hoc est officium familiae Meraritarum et ministerium in tabernaculo foederis eruntque sub manu Ithamar filii Aaron sacerdotis

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 haec sunt onera eorum portabunt tabulas tabernaculi et vectes eius columnas et bases earum

32 columnas quoque atrii per circuitum cum basibus et paxillis et funibus suis omnia vasa et supellectilem ad numerum accipient sicque portabunt

33 hoc est officium familiae Meraritarum et ministerium in tabernaculo foederis eruntque sub manu Ithamar filii Aaron sacerdotis

34 recensuerunt igitur Moses et Aaron et principes synagogae filios Caath per cognationes et domos patrum suorum

35 a triginta annis et supra usque ad annum quinquagesimum omnes qui ingrediuntur ad ministerium tabernaculi foederis