This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
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This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
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And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
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And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof;
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Passages linked to Numbers 4:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 3:36-37 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
- Exodus 26:15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
- Numbers 7:8-9 He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which were as the feet upon which the pillars…
Which were as the feet upon which the pillars stood; of which see Exo 38:27.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Moses and Aaron, and the chief of the…
And Moses and Aaron, and the chief of the congregation,
numbered the sons of the Kohathites,.... Perhaps these chiefs were the same with those who were concerned with Moses and Aaron in numbering all the tribes whose names were given, Num 1:5; the Kohathites are begun with, according to the divine direction, and then the Gershonites and Merarites in their order; and in Num 4:34 is only an account of the numbering of each of them, as ordered by the Lord, and this account is expressed in the same terms in them all; there remains nothing to be observed but the particular sums of each of them, the number of the Kohathites from thirty years old even to fifty, men able and fit for business, were 2750, Num 4:36; whereas their number from a month old were 8600, Num 3:28; so that not a third part of them were at an age for service: the number of the Gershonites were 2630, Num 4:40; whose number of males in all were 7500, Num 3:22; so that they were rather more than a third part who were able-bodied then and fit for business; and the number of the Merarites were 3200, Num 4:44; and as the number of males of a month old and upwards were 6200, Num 3:34; there were more than half of them able and fit men for service; in which, as Ainsworth observes, may be seen the wisdom of divine Providence, that whereas the service of the Kohathites and Gershonites were the lightest, and what was committed to them the easiest of carriage, they had the fewer hands of able men to be employed, though their numbers of individuals were the greatest; and the Merarites, who had the smallest number of males, yet having the heaviest work to do in carrying burdens, loading and unloading wagons, were superior to the rest in their number of able bodied men; and thus God makes good his promise, that as the day of his people is, their strength shall be; whatever work and service God calls men to, he will fit them for it: the sum total of the Levites, in the several divisions of them, who were between: thirty and fifty years of age, in which they performed their office, was 8580, Num 4:48; a small number, as the above writer observes, of such as warred the spiritual warfare in the sanctuary of God, when the tribe of Judah afforded 74,600 for the outward warfare.
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after their families, and after the house of their fathers; See Gill on Num 4:2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The sockets - Which were as the feet upon…
The sockets - Which were as the feet upon which the pillars stood.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (31) The boards of the tabernacle, and the bars…
(31) The boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof . . . —The duty of the Merarites was to carry the heavier and more cumbersome parts of the Tabernacle and the court; and it is probably on this account that, in their case, the specific duties of each were assigned to them by name (Num_4:32). The description of the several portions of the Tabernacle and Court here enumerated is found in Exodus 26, 36.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This is the charge of their burden, viz., all…
This is the charge of their burden, viz., all the solid parts of the fabric of the tabernacle and its court; by far the heaviest burden, and so allotted to the largest number.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is their responsibility
This is their responsibility
"This" refers to what Yahweh says next.
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their sockets, pegs, and their ropes, with all their hardware
Here "their" refers to the posts of the court.
crossbars, posts, and sockets ... and their ropes
These are all parts of the framing of the tabernacle. See how you translated all of these parts in Numbers 4:31-32.
List by name the articles they must carry
"List by each man's name the articles he must carry"
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tent of meeting
tabernacle
court
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