Numbers 4:4

4 "The service of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting concerns the most holy objects.^[a]

Numbers 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:4

This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath, in the
tabernacle of the congregation
What follows, ( Numbers 4:4-15 ) ;

[about] the most holy things;
which Aben Ezra interprets only of the ark, which was indeed a most holy thing, and stood in the most holy place; but there were other holy things, in the care of which the service of the Kohathites lay; as the shewbread table, the candlestick, and the altars of incense and burnt offering, and the vail, and the ministering: vessels, which Jarchi reckons with it, as more holy than all other things.

Numbers 4:4 In-Context

2 "Among the Levites, take a census of the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,

3 men from 30 years old to 50 years old-everyone who is qualified to do work at the tent of meeting.

4 "The service of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting concerns the most holy objects.

5 Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening veil, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

6 They are to place over this a covering made of manatee skin, spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.

Footnotes

• [a] Nm 3:30-31; 4:15-19