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Numbers 1:50

in Numbers 1

Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

KJV

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The tabernacle of testimony - So called here, and Exod. xxxviii, 21, because it was made chiefly for the sake of the ark of the testimony, which is often called the testimony.

This site's exposition

thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony

on Numbers 1:50-53

Levi is taken off one service and put to another, taking the tabernacle down, setting it up, bearing it and camping around it. The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death, and the stranger meant is any Israelite outside Levi, a rule repeated at 3:10, 3:38 and 18:7 and tested by Korah in chapter 16. Israel pitches by standard at a distance, Levi forms a ring between, and verse 53 states the reason outright, that there be no wrath upon the congregation. The word standard occurs at verse 52 for the first time in Scripture, before chapter 2 names the four.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus we all are unfit and unworthy to have fellowship with God until we are first called by his grace into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and so, being the spiritual seed of that great high priest, are made priests to our God; and it is promised that God would take Levites to himself, even from the Gentiles, Isa. lxvi.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Great care must be taken to prevent sin, because the preventing of sin is the preventing of wrath. It was their further honour that as Israel, being a holy people, was not reckoned among the nations, so they, being a holy tribe, were not reckoned among other Israelites, but numbered afterwards by themselves,

The words behind it

26 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַתָּ֡הand you

    veatahH8591094 times

  • הַפְקֵ֣דappoint

    hafkedH6485303 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַלְוִיִּם֩the Levites

    halviyimH3881291 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • מִשְׁכַּ֨ן[the] tabernacle of

    mishkanH4908139 times

  • הָעֵדֻ֜תthe testimony

    haedutH571559 times

  • וְעַ֣לand over

    vealH59215755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • כֵּלָיו֮articles its

    kelavH3627325 times

  • וְעַ֣לand over

    vealH59215755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • לוֹ֒[belongs] to <the> it

    lo

  • הֵ֜מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • יִשְׂא֤וּthey will carry

    yisuH5375656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙the tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908139 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • כֵּלָ֔יוarticles its

    kelavH3627325 times

  • וְהֵ֖םand they

    vehemH1992553 times

  • יְשָׁרְתֻ֑הוּthey will serve it

    yeshartuhuH833497 times

  • וְסָבִ֥יבand around

    vesavivH5439336 times

  • לַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן<to> the tabernacle

    lamishkanH4908139 times

  • יַחֲנֽוּ׃they will encamp

    yachanuH2583143 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 31:18

    When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:13

      He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

    • Exodus 32:15–16

      Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

    • Deuteronomy 5:22

      The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them…

    • Exodus 24:12

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written…

    • Exodus 8:19

      “This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

  • Through

    Numbers 4:15

    When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 6:6–7

      When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

    • Numbers 7:9

      But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.

    • Deuteronomy 31:9

      So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.