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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites. Or give no occasion, as the Targum of Jonathan; or be not the cause of their cutting off, as Jarchi, through negligence or inadvertency of theirs, in packing up the above things, and delivering them to them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But thus do unto them,.... As after directed: that they may live and not die; live long, and not die a sudden and violent death: when they approach unto the most holy things; the ark, the shewbread table, c. to take them up and carry them: Aaron and his sons shall go in into the holy and most holy places: and appoint them in everyone to his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered,.... They were not to be present while they were packing up, test they should see any of them with their eyes; they were not to go in until they were quite covered out of sight; which may signify the hiding of the mysteries of grace in those things under the former dispensation, when...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Though Aaron is not mentioned here, he was concerned in taking the sum of the Gershonites, as well as of the Kohathites, as appears from Numbers 4:41; saying; as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,.... As well as of the sons of Kohath; for though Gershon was Levi's eldest son, yet his posterity were not excused from the service of the tabernacle, and bearing things of it in journeying: throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; all in their several houses, and in the several families...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, shalt thou number them,.... Take an account how many there are of that age, and so fit for service (a); [See comments on Numbers 4:3]; to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation; as the rest of the Levites; see Numbers 4:3; (a) לצבא צבא "ad militandum militiam", Montanus, Drusius.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens. The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle,.... The ten curtains of fine linen, Exodus 26:1; and the tabernacle of the congregation; the curtains of goats' hair made for a tent over it, as Jarchi, see Exodus 26:7; his covering the covering of rams skins dyed red, Exodus 26:14; and the covering of the badgers' skins that [is] above upon it;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the hangings of the court,.... Which made the great court that surrounded the tabernacle, Exodus 27:9; and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court; the eastern gate that led into the court, an hanging of twenty cubits, Exodus 27:16; which [is] by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about; that is, which hangings that formed the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
At the appointment of Aaron and his sons,.... As they shall order and direct: shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites; everyone of them was to take their share, as Aaron and his sons should appoint them: in all their burdens, and in all their service; what each of them should carry, and in what they should perform duty: and ye...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon,.... Which they should execute when the camp and tabernacle were in motion: in the tabernacle of the congregation in the court; where they should take up their burdens, or which lie in things respecting the tabernacle; this was the part they were to be employed in, namely, in taking care...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As for the sons of Merari,.... The third and youngest son of Levi: thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; which is the form of expression used of them all; [See comments on Numbers 4:2].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward,.... The Septuagint version here, and in Numbers 4:3, renders it, from twenty five years old and upward, agreeable to Numbers 8:24, at the which age the Levites went into the tabernacle, to wait and to learn their business, but they did not enter upon it till thirty; even unto fifty years old shalt thou number...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And this [is] the charge of their burden,.... What should be committed to their care and charge, and they should bear and carry: according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which was assigned to them as their part, and which was very heavy and cumbersome, and therefore they had wagons allowed them, Numbers 7:8; the boards...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords,.... These belonged to the court of the tabernacle; the pillars were what the hangings were hung upon, and the sockets, into which the pillars were set, and the and cords, with which the hangings were fastened; see Exodus 27:9; with all their instruments,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari,.... The Mahlites and Mushites, namely, the service before observed, the particulars of which are given: according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; agreeably to what was allotted to them in that part of the tabernacle they were concerned in: under the hand of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Moses and Aaron, and the chief of the congregation, numbered the sons of the Kohathites,.... Perhaps these chiefs were the same with those who were concerned with Moses and Aaron in numbering all the tribes whose names were given, Numbers 1:5; the Kohathites are begun with, according to the divine direction, and then the Gershonites and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And those that were numbered of them by their families,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites,.... [See comments on Numbers 4:34].