What does Numbers 4:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Verse Numbers 4:3. _FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD_] In Numbers 8:24, the Levites are ordered to enter on the service of the tabernacle at the age of _twenty-five_ years; and in 1 Chronicles 23:24, they were o...
CHAPTER 4 The Service of the Levites and their Numbering _ 1. The children of Kohath; their service (Numbers 4:1)_ 2. The sons of Gershon; their service (Numbers 4:21) 3. The sons of Merari; their...
A CENSUS OF THE LEVITES QUALIFIED TO SERVE ABOUT THE TABERNACLE, AND THE APPORTIONMENT OF THEIR DUTIES. This census includes all males between 30 and 50 (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 23:3). In Numbers 8:23 the...
THIRTY. This thirty pertains to their _numbering,_ The age twenty-five pertains to their _service._ So that there was. probationary live years. Changed (by Divine direction given to David) in 1 Chroni...
The Kohathites and their duties....
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD— In chap. Numbers 8:24 the age of _twenty-five years_ is appointed for the admission of the Levites to the service of the tabernacle; agreeably to which the LXX. read...
VI. MARCHING DUTIES ASSIGNED TO THE LEVITE FAMILIES (NUMBERS 4) A. THE KOHATHITES vv. 1-20 TEXT Numbers 4:1. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2. Take the sum of the sons of Levi, aft...
_TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF KOHATH FROM AMONG THE SONS OF LEVI, AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS,_ Sons of Kohath ... from thirty years old and upward. This age was specifically f...
4:3 service, (a-17) _ Tsaba_ . Service to which one is subjected. elsewhere 'labour,' 'suffering,' 'military service,' and so 'labour' in vers. 30,35,39,43. see ch. 26.2; Isaiah 40:2 ....
THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES ON THE MARCH 2. Kohath seems to have been the second son of Levi (Numbers 3:17), but his family is mentioned first, because Moses and Aaron belonged to it (Numbers 3:19 cp....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE DUTIES OF KOHATH’S *CLAN – NUMBERS 4:1-20 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, V2-3 ‘Kohath’s *cla...
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD EVEN UNTIL FIFTY YEARS OLD. — The previous census of the Levites was from a month old. The present census was with a view to the discharge of duties requiring a consid...
מִ בֶּ֨ן שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָ מַ֔עְלָה וְ עַ֖ד בֶּן ־חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה כָּל ־בָּא֙ לַ...
3. LEVITICAL SERVICE Numbers 3:14; Numbers 4:1 The sacred service of the Levites is described in detail. There are three divisions, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites. The Gershonites, f...
Continuing the instructions concerning the Levites, we have a minute account of their work in connection with the movement and marching of the people. The family of Kohath were made responsible for ca...
From (a) thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. (a) The Levites were counted at three times, first...
_Thirty. Moses speaks of those who had to carry the sacred vessels. Those of 25 years old might perform some offices; (chap. viii. 24,) and even at 20, they began to serve the tabernacle, in the reign...
Let the reader observe upon the particular age of the Levites, appointed to minister in holy things, that this service did not begin till after the thirtieth year. And surely the Reader will not forge...
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
Next in order come the arrangements prescribed for the carrying of the things which the tabernacle contained, as well as their coverings, when the camp journeyed in the wilderness. I shall point out w...
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD EVEN UNTIL FIFTY YEARS OLD,.... This is the full time of the Levites service, and the prime season of man's life for business; at thirty years of age he is at his full...
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. Ver. 3. _To do the work._] The work of the ministry is...
_From thirty_ This age was prescribed, as the age of full strength of body, and therefore most proper for their laborious work of carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle, and of maturity of j...
1 The age and time of the Leuites seruice. 4 The carriage of the Kohathites when the Priestes haue taken downe the Tabernacle. 16 The charge of Eleazar. 17 The office of the Priests. 21 The carria...
THE WORK OF THE KOHATHITES...
THE SERVICE OF THE KOHATHITES (vs.1-20) Moses and Aaron are instructed in verse 2 to take a census of the sons of Korath, those males 30 to 50 years of age. In verses 21-22 the same is said as to th...
1-3 The middle-aged men of the tribe of Levi, all from thirty years old to fifty, were to be employed in the service of the tabernacle. The service of God requires the best of our strength, and the pr...
FROM THIRTY YEARS OLD: this age was prescribed, as the age of full strength of body, and therefore most proper for their present laborious work of carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle; and...
CHAPTER 4 THE TASKS OF THE LEVITES. In this chapter the special tasks allotted to the priests and to each of the sub-tribes of Levi are described, and the number of Levites between thirty and fifty ...
Numbers 4:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,_ There were th...
CONTENTS: The service of the Kohathrites, Gershonites and Merarites. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: There is a service appointed to each of God's people in connection with His Church, an...
Numbers 4:3. _Thirty years old._ We read in chap. 8., that the levites began to learn as is understood, at the age of twenty five. From 1 Chronicles 23., we learn that the census was taken at the age...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 4:1 Levites between 30 and 50 years old were responsible for moving the tabernacle from campsite to campsite. This chapter specifies what each Levitical clan must do (vv. Numbe...
Critical Notes.— Numbers 4:3. צָבָא, _host_, “signifies military service, and is used here with special reference to the service of the Levites as the _militia sacra_ of Jehovah.”—_Keil and Del_. Num...
EXPOSITION THE DUTIES OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 4:1). NUMBERS 4:2 TAKE THE SUM OF THE SONS OF KOHATH. The Levites having been separated from the other tribes, the Kohathites are now to be separated f...
Now in chapter four we find that from the tribe of Kohath the men that were to actually do the service of carrying and all, of course they numbered them from a month old upwards. It's obvious that lit...
1 Chronicles 23:24; 1 Chronicles 23:28; 1 Chronicles 23:3; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 1 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:13; 1 Chronicles 6:48;...
From thirty — This age was prescribed, as the age of full strength of body, and therefore most proper for their laborious work of carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle, and of maturity of j...
How can the age for Levitical service be 30, when Numbers 8:24 says 25, and Ezra 3:8 says 20? PROBLEM: According to Numbers 4:3, at 30 years of age a Levite would “enter the service to do the work in...