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Numbers 4:32

30 from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

31 This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,

and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.

33 This is the service of the Merarite clans according to all their work at the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”

34 So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and families,

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BSB
and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
KJV
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
WEB
the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
ASV
and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.
DARBY
and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, all their instruments, according to all their service; and by name ye shall number to them the materials which are their charge to carry.
BLB
And the pillars around the court, and their bases, and pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings, and all their service; and by name you⁺ shall assign the items of the charge of their burden.
ÅB
og stolpene til forgården rundt omkring med deres fotstykker og plugger og snorer, alle redskaper som hører til, og alt som brukes til arbeidet derved; og dere skal ved navn overgi dem de ting som de har å bære.
OTB
samt stolpene til den omkringliggende forgården med deres sokler, teltplugger, tau, alt deres utstyr, og alt som er relatert til deres bruk. Tildel hver mann ved navn de spesifikke gjenstandene han skal bære.
B1930
og stolpene til forgården rundt omkring med deres fotstykker og plugger og snorer, alle redskaper som hører til, og alt som brukes til arbeidet derved; og I skal ved navn overgi dem de ting som de har å bære.

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Cross references

  • Exodus 38:21

    This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

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  • 1 Chronicles 9:29

    Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.

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  • Numbers 3:8

    They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

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  • Numbers 7:1

    On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.

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  • Exodus 38:17

    The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.

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  • Exodus 25:9

    You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

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