And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
And Moses taketh the waggons and the oxen, and giveth them unto the Levites.
And Moses took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
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And Moses took the wagons and the oxen,.... Of the princes, as he was directed: and gave them unto the Levites; the Gershonites and Merarites; for, as for the Kohathites, they had no part of them, for a reason after given, Num 7:9.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
10, 11. the princes offered for dedicating of the altar, &c.--"Altar" is here used in the singular for the plural; for it is evident, from the kind of offerings, that the altars of burnt offering and incense are both referred to.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
