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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.

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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

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites

on Numbers 3:33-35

Merari's 6,200 camp on the north under Zuriel son of Abihail. With Gershon west and Kohath south, the Levites form an inner ring around the tent, inside the four standards of chapter 2. Verse 38 fills the east side.

This site's exposition

they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle

Merari pitches north, on the side facing Dan's camp at 2:25. Matthew Henry says each Levite house knew its own business, since work left to everybody is often done by nobody. With Zuriel's house in place, three sides are filled.

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'H5387 →134 times

  • בֵֽית־[the] house of

    veit-H1004 →2046 times

  • אָב֙a father

    ʾavH1 →1212 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣תof [the] clans of

    lemishpechotH4940 →303 times

  • מְרָרִ֔י[the] Merarite[s]

    merariH4848 →4 times

  • צוּרִיאֵ֖ל[was] Zuriel

    tzurielH6700 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲבִיחָ֑יִלAbihail

    ʾavichayilH32 →

  • עַ֣לat

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • יֶ֧רֶךְ[the] side of

    yerekhH3409 →34 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • יַחֲנ֖וּthey will encamp

    yachanuH2583 →143 times

  • צָפֹֽנָה׃north -ward

    tzafonahH6828 →153 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 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 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.