Numbers 3:37

37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

Numbers 3:37 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:37

And the pillars of the court round about
Of the great court which went round the tabernacle, on which pillars the hangings were hung:

and their sockets;
into which the, pillars were put; of both which see ( Exodus 27:9-17 ) ;

and their pins, and their cords,
the pins were fixed in the ground, and the cords fastened the hangings of the court to them, whereby they were kept tight and unmoved by the winds; see ( Exodus 27:19 ) .

Numbers 3:37 In-Context

35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; these shall pitch camp on the side of the tabernacle northward.

36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,

37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

38 But those who encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger who cometh nigh shall be put to death.

39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward were twenty and two thousand.