New American Standard Bible 2020

Numbers 4:2-15

2“Take a 1census of the 2descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ households, 3from 3thirty years old and upward, even to fifty years old, everyone who can enter the service of ministry to do work in the tent of meeting. 4This is the work of the 4descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things.

5“When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down 5the veil of the curtain, and cover the 6ark of the testimony with it; 6and they shall place a 7covering of 8fine leather on it, and spread over it a cloth of pure 9violet, and insert its carrying poles. 7Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of violet and put on it the dishes, the pans, the sacrificial bowls, and the jugs for the drink offering; and 10the continual bread shall be on it. 8And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and they shall insert its carrying poles. 9Then they shall take a violet cloth and cover the 11lampstand for the light, 12along with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all its oil containers, by which they attend to it; 10and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on the carrying 13bars. 11Over the golden altar they shall spread a violet cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and they shall insert its carrying poles; 12and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a violet cloth and cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on the carrying 14bars. 13Then they shall clean away the 15ashes from the 16altar, and spread a purple cloth over it. 14They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks, shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of fine leather over it and insert its carrying poles. 15When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them by the poles, so that they will not touch the holy objects 17and die. These are the 18things in the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.

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Notes

1. Numbers 4:2 Lit sum ↩
2. Numbers 4:2 Lit sons ↩
3. Numbers 4:3 Num 4:23, 30, 35; 8:24; 1 Chr 23:3, 24, 27; Ezra 3:8 ↩
4. Numbers 4:4 Lit sons ↩
5. Numbers 4:5 Ex 40:5; Lev 16:2; 2 Chr 3:14; Matt 27:51; Heb 9:3 ↩
6. Numbers 4:5 Ex 25:10-16 ↩
7. Numbers 4:6 Num 4:25 ↩
8. Numbers 4:6 Meaning of the Heb uncertain, and so throughout the ch ↩
9. Numbers 4:6 Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color, and so throughout the ch ↩
10. Numbers 4:7 Ex 25:30; Lev 24:5-9 ↩
11. Numbers 4:9 Ex 25:31 ↩
12. Numbers 4:9 Ex 25:37, 38 ↩
13. Numbers 4:10 Or frame ↩
14. Numbers 4:12 Or frame ↩
15. Numbers 4:13 Or fatty ashes; i.e., soaked with fat ↩
16. Numbers 4:13 Ex 27:1-8 ↩
17. Numbers 4:15 Num 1:51; 4:19, 20; 2 Sam 6:6, 7 ↩
18. Numbers 4:15 Lit burden...of the sons ↩

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