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Numbers 3:35

in Numbers 3

The leader of the families of the Merarites was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: they shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward.

KJV

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites

on Numbers 3:33-35

Merari's two families number six thousand two hundred, the smallest of the three houses, and they pitch on the north under Zuriel the son of Abihail. With Gershon on the west, Kohath on the south and Merari on the north, the Levites form an inner ring around the tent inside the outer ring of four standards in chapter 2. The east is left unnamed in this list and verse 38 says who fills it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

(4.) Of their charge, when the camp moved. Each class knew their own business; it was requisite they should, for that which is every body's work often proves nobody's work.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וּנְשִׂ֤יאand [the] leader of

    unesi'H5387134 times

  • בֵֽית־[the] house of

    veit-H10042046 times

  • אָב֙a father

    ʾavH11212 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣תof [the] clans of

    lemishpechotH4940303 times

  • מְרָרִ֔י[the] Merarite[s]

    merariH48484 times

  • צוּרִיאֵ֖ל[was] Zuriel

    tzurielH6700

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • אֲבִיחָ֑יִלAbihail

    ʾavichayilH32

  • עַ֣לat

    ʾalH59215755 times

  • יֶ֧רֶךְ[the] side of

    yerekhH340934 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908139 times

  • יַחֲנ֖וּthey will encamp

    yachanuH2583143 times

  • צָפֹֽנָה׃north -ward

    tzafonahH6828153 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 31:47

      From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded…

  • Through

    Numbers 2:25

    On the north side, the divisions of Dan are to camp under their standard:

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:12

      from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

    • Numbers 7:71

      and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

    • Numbers 10:25

      Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.

Where this verse is studied

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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.