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.

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Numbers 4:4

About the most holy things - Omit "about." The sense is, "this is the charge of the sons of Kohath, the most holy things:" i. e. the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, the candlestick, and the golden altar, together with the furniture pertaining thereto. It appears, from a comparison of Numbers 4:16, Numbers 4:28, Numbers 4:33, that the ministry of the Kohathites was superintended by Eleazar, the older of the two surviving sons of Aaron; and that of the two other families by Ithamar.

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