Numbers 4:31

31 "Their service for the tent of meeting will be to carry the frames, crossbars, posts and sockets of the tabernacle;

Numbers 4:31 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:31

And this [is] the charge of their burden
What should be committed to their care and charge, and they should bear and carry:

according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation;
which was assigned to them as their part, and which was very heavy and cumbersome, and therefore they had wagons allowed them, ( Numbers 7:8 ) ;

the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
thereof, and sockets thereof;
all these belonged to the holy and to the most holy place; see ( Exodus 26:15-37 ) .

Numbers 4:31 In-Context

29 "As for the descendants of M'rari, take a census by clans and families
30 of all those between thirty and fifty years old, all who will be in the corps doing the work of serving in the tent of meeting.
31 "Their service for the tent of meeting will be to carry the frames, crossbars, posts and sockets of the tabernacle;
32 also the posts for the surrounding courtyard, with their sockets, tent pegs, ropes and other accessories, and everything having to do with their service. You are to assign particular loads to specific persons by name.
33 This is how the M'rari families are to serve in the tent of meeting, directed by Itamar the son of Aharon the cohen."
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