Numbers 4:4 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 4:4

2 “Take a census of the sons of ^aKohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ house,

3 ^afrom thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

4 ^a“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, relating to ^bthe most holy things:

5 When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down ^athe covering veil and cover the ^bark of the Testimony with it.

6 Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over that a cloth entirely of ^ablue; and they shall insert ^bits poles.

7 “On the ^atable of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the¹ pitchers for pouring; and the ^bshowbread shall be on it.

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Numbers 4:4-5

Go back to Numbers 4. This is instruction about the duties of the sons of Kohath—Levites.

This was done out of the sight of everybody, even the other sons of Kohath. This had to be done strictly by the priests. You will notice there that there are three coverings on the ark of the Testimony. There are the veil, the badger skins, and the blue cloth. No one was to look upon the ark, except the priests, even when it was out of the most holy place.

Excerpted from Worship and Culture (Part 1)

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