Numbers 4:4

4 This [is] the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary:

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 "{Take a census} of the descendants of Kohath from the midst of the descendants of Levi, according to their clans and {their families},

3 from {thirty years old} and above, up to {fifty years old}, everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly.

4 This [is] the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary:

5 When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony.

6 They will put on it a covering of {fine leather}, and they will spread a cloth of perfect blue over it, and they will place its poles.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "sons"