Numbers 3:29

The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

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KJV

The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

ASV

The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward.

YLT

The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward.

DBT

The families of the sons of Kohath encamped on the side of the tabernacle southward.

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The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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The verses this one reaches4

Numbers 1:53
But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
Numbers 2:10
On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard:
Numbers 3:23
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,
Numbers 3:38
Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the…
leads to
- Numbers 16:46
  Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…
- 1 Chronicles 23:32
  So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.
- Leviticus 10:6
  Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be…
- Numbers 3:7–8
  They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.
- Numbers 31:30
  From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
Through
Numbers 2:10
On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard:
leads to
- Numbers 1:5
  These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
- Numbers 7:35
  and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
Through
Numbers 3:23
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,
leads to
- Numbers 1:53
  But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the…

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