Numbers 3:23 BSB — MannaFest

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6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת	mish.pe.Chot	[the] clans of	H4940 →
הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י	ha.ge.re.shu.Ni	the Gershonite[s]	H1649 →
אַחֲרֵ֧י	'a.cha.Rei	behind	H310 →
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן	ha.mish.Kan	the tabernacle	H4908 →
יַחֲנ֖וּ	ya.cha.Nu	they will encamp	H2583 →
יָֽמָּה׃	Ya.mah	west -ward	H3220 →

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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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 8:24–26
  “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
- 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 2:17
In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place…
leads to
- Numbers 10:21
  Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.
- Numbers 10:17
  Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
- Colossians 2:5
  For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Numbers 1:53But 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 2:17In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.Numbers 3:29The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,Numbers 3:38Moses, 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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