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Selected Verse: Numbers 4:17 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 4:17 |
Strong Concordance |
And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] and unto Aaron [0175], saying [0559], |
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King James |
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites, &c.--a solemn admonition to Moses and Aaron to beware, lest, by any negligence on their part, disorder and improprieties should creep in, and to take the greatest care that all the parts of this important service be apportioned to the proper parties, lest the Kohathites should be disqualified for their high and honorable duties. The guilt of their death would be incurred by the superintending priest, if he failed to give proper directions or allowed any irreverent familiarity with sacred things. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| In order to prevent as far as possible any calamity from befalling the Levites while carrying the most holy things, the priests are again urged by the command of God to do what has already been described in detail in Num 4:5-15, lest through any carelessness on their part they should cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites, i.e., should cause their destruction; viz., if they should approach the holy things before they had been wrapped up by Aaron and his sons in the manner prescribed and handed over to them to carry. If the Kohathites should come for only a single moment to look at the holy things, they would die. אל־תּכריתוּ, "cut ye not off," i.e., "take care that the Kohathites are not cut off through your mistake and negligence" (Ros.). "The tribe of the families of the Kohathites:" shebet, the tribe, is not used here, as it frequently is, in its derivative sense of tribe (Tribus), but in the original literal sense of stirps. |
5 And when the camp [04264] setteth forward [05265], Aaron [0175] shall come [0935], and his sons [01121], and they shall take down [03381] the covering [04539] vail [06532], and cover [03680] the ark [0727] of testimony [05715] with it:
6 And shall put [05414] thereon the covering [03681] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and shall spread [06566] over [04605] it a cloth [0899] wholly [03632] of blue [08504], and shall put [07760] in the staves [0905] thereof.
7 And upon the table [07979] of shewbread [06440] they shall spread [06566] a cloth [0899] of blue [08504], and put [05414] thereon the dishes [07086], and the spoons [03709], and the bowls [04518], and covers [07184] to cover withal [05262]: and the continual [08548] bread [03899] shall be thereon:
8 And they shall spread [06566] upon them a cloth [0899] of scarlet [08438] [08144], and cover [03680] the same with a covering [04372] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and shall put [07760] in the staves [0905] thereof.
9 And they shall take [03947] a cloth [0899] of blue [08504], and cover [03680] the candlestick [04501] of the light [03974], and his lamps [05216], and his tongs [04457], and his snuffdishes [04289], and all the oil [08081] vessels [03627] thereof, wherewith they minister [08334] unto it:
10 And they shall put [05414] it and all the vessels [03627] thereof within a covering [04372] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and shall put [05414] it upon a bar [04132].
11 And upon the golden [02091] altar [04196] they shall spread [06566] a cloth [0899] of blue [08504], and cover [03680] it with a covering [04372] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and shall put [07760] to the staves [0905] thereof:
12 And they shall take [03947] all the instruments [03627] of ministry [08335], wherewith they minister [08334] in the sanctuary [06944], and put [05414] them in a cloth [0899] of blue [08504], and cover [03680] them with a covering [04372] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and shall put [05414] them on a bar [04132]:
13 And they shall take away the ashes [01878] from the altar [04196], and spread [06566] a purple [0713] cloth [0899] thereon:
14 And they shall put [05414] upon it all the vessels [03627] thereof, wherewith they minister [08334] about it, even the censers [04289], the fleshhooks [04207], and the shovels [03257], and the basons [04219], all the vessels [03627] of the altar [04196]; and they shall spread [06566] upon it a covering [03681] of badgers [08476]' skins [05785], and put [07760] to the staves [0905] of it.
15 And when Aaron [0175] and his sons [01121] have made an end [03615] of covering [03680] the sanctuary [06944], and all the vessels [03627] of the sanctuary [06944], as the camp [04264] is to set forward [05265]; after [0310] that, the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955] shall come [0935] to bear [05375] it: but they shall not touch [05060] any holy thing [06944], lest they die [04191]. These things are the burden [04853] of the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955] in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150].