Numbers 4:21

21 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 4:21 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:21

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Though Aaron is not mentioned here, he was concerned in taking the sum of the Gershonites, as well as of the Kohathites, as appears from ( Numbers 4:41 ) ;

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 4:21 In-Context

19 This do ye to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing.

20 And they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die.

21 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

22 Take the sum of the children of Gedson, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to their families.

23 Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until the age of fifty, every one that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness.