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Numbers 3:29

in Numbers 3

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The clans of the Kohathites

on Numbers 3:29-30

Kohath camps on the south, where 2:10 also puts Reuben, so Korah the Kohathite and Dathan and Abiram of Reuben in 16:1 were neighbours before they were rebels. The Kohathite leader is Elizaphan son of Uzziel, the last of Kohath's four sons in verse 19, while Korah descends from the second. Gill passes on the Jewish reading that this promotion fed Korah's grievance, which chapter 16 does not state.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת[the] clans of

    mishpechotH4940 →303 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • קְהָ֖תKohath

    kehatH6955 →32 times

  • יַחֲנ֑וּthey will encamp

    yachanuH2583 →143 times

  • עַ֛לat

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • יֶ֥רֶךְ[the] side of

    yerekhH3409 →34 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • תֵּימָֽנָה׃south -ward

    teimanahH8486 →23 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

    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…

    it 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:

    it 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,

    it 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…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.