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Numbers 4:24

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Numbers 4:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:24

This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to
serve, and for burdens.
] The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and carrying the things assigned to them, afterwards mentioned.

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Numbers 4:24 In-Context

22 to take a census of the Levite clan of Gershon by subclans and families,
23 and to register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who were qualified to work in the Tent of the Lord's presence.
24 They shall be responsible for carrying the following objects:
25 the Tent, its inner cover, its outer cover, the fine leather cover on top of it, the curtain for the entrance,
26 the curtains and ropes for the court that is around the Tent and the altar, the curtains for the entrance of the court, and all the fittings used in setting up these objects. They shall perform all the tasks required for these things.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

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