Full Commentary
Open the full commentary stream for Numbers.
Old Testament
NET Bible® Scripture text without NET Bible notes. Verse anchors allow direct linking to exact verses.
Numbers 4:11Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:22“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:19Num 3:27
Numbers 4:33from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:231 Chr 23:24-321 Chr 23:3-52 Kgs 11:4-12Eph 6:10-18Luke 3:23Num 8:24-261 Chr 28:12-131 Chr 6:481 Tim 1:18
Numbers 4:44This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:19Mark 13:34Num 3:30-31Num 4:15Num 4:24Num 4:30
Numbers 4:55When it is time for the camp to journey, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:3Matt 27:512 Sam 6:2-9Exod 25:10-22Exod 26:31-33Exod 36:35Exod 37:1-9Exod 40:3Heb 10:20Isa 25:7
Numbers 4:66Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 25:13-151 Kgs 8:7-8Exod 35:19Exod 39:1Exod 39:41Num 4:11-13Num 4:7-8
Numbers 4:77“On the table of the presence they must spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 24:5-8Exod 25:23-30Exod 37:10-16
Numbers 4:88They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:11-13Num 4:6-7Num 4:9
Numbers 4:99“They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 25:31-39Exod 37:17-24Ps 119:105Rev 1:20-2:1
Numbers 4:1010Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:12Num 4:6
Numbers 4:1111“They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:1-19Exod 37:25-28Exod 39:38Exod 40:26-27Exod 40:5
Numbers 4:1212Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 9:292 Chr 4:112 Chr 4:162 Chr 4:192 Chr 4:222 Kgs 25:14-15Exod 25:9Exod 31:10Num 3:8Num 4:7
Numbers 4:1313Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 6:12-13Exod 27:1-8Exod 39:1Exod 39:41Num 4:11-12Num 4:6-9
Numbers 4:1414Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there—the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar—and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 38:1-72 Chr 4:19
Numbers 4:1515“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 6:6-7Num 7:9Deut 31:91 Chr 13:9-10Num 10:211 Chr 15:21 Sam 6:191 Chr 15:152 Sam 6:13Exod 19:12
Numbers 4:1616“The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 25:6Lev 24:21 Pet 2:25Exod 30:23-381 Cor 4:11 Pet 5:21 Tim 2:5Acts 20:28Exod 27:20-21Exod 29:39-41
Numbers 4:1717Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:1818“Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:192 Sam 6:6-7Exod 19:21Jer 38:23Lev 10:1-2Num 16:32Num 17:10Num 18:5
Numbers 4:1919but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:15
Numbers 4:2020But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:19Exod 19:21Lev 10:2Num 4:15Num 4:19Heb 10:19-20Rev 11:19
Numbers 4:2121Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:2222“Also take a census of the Gershonites also, by their clans and by their families.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:18Num 3:21Num 3:24
Numbers 4:2323You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:31 Chr 23:241 Chr 23:271 Chr 23:31 Cor 9:71 Tim 1:182 Cor 10:3-52 Cor 6:72 Tim 2:3-42 Tim 4:7
Numbers 4:2424This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve and carry it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:15Num 4:19Num 4:27Num 4:31-32Num 4:47Num 4:49
Numbers 4:2525They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 26:14Num 3:25-26Num 7:5-7
Numbers 4:2626the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 27:9Exod 35:18
Numbers 4:2727“All the service of the Gershonites, whether carrying loads or for any of their work, will be at the direction of Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks as their responsibility.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 11:2Luke 1:70
Numbers 4:2828This is the service of the families of the Gershonites concerning the tent of meeting. Their responsibilities will be under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:331 Cor 12:5-6
Numbers 4:2929“As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:33-35
Numbers 4:3030You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:23Num 4:31 Tim 6:11-122 Tim 2:42 Tim 4:7-8Ps 110:1-7
Numbers 4:3131This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:36-37Exod 26:15Num 7:8-9
Numbers 4:3232and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by name the items that each man is responsible to carry.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 38:211 Chr 9:29Exod 25:9Exod 38:17Num 3:8Num 7:1
Numbers 4:3333This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:28Isa 3:6Josh 3:6
Numbers 4:3434So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:3535from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 23:24Num 4:231 Chr 23:26-271 Chr 23:31 Chr 28:131 Tim 3:6Luke 3:23Num 4:3Num 4:30Num 4:39
Numbers 4:3636and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:3737These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:3838Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:3939from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:4040those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:32
Numbers 4:4141These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:4242Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:4343from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:4444those of them numbered by their families were 3,200.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:131 Cor 12:8-122 Cor 12:9-10Deut 33:25Num 3:34
Numbers 4:4545These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 4:29
Numbers 4:4646All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Numbers 4:4747from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying relating to the tent of meeting—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:4-31Rom 12:6-8Num 4:31 Chr 23:271 Chr 23:3Num 4:15Num 4:23-24Num 4:30Num 4:37
Numbers 4:4848those of them numbered were 8,580.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:39Matt 20:16Matt 22:15Matt 7:14
Numbers 4:4949According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 1:54Num 4:15Num 4:21Num 4:24Num 4:31Isa 11:2-4Isa 42:1-7Isa 49:1-8Num 1:47Num 2:33
Open the full commentary stream for Numbers.
Open the concise commentary stream for Numbers.
Open the simple commentary for Numbers 4:1-49.
Read the book-level overview and orientation.
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NET) are from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996, 2019 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved.