This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:
Parallel translations
- WEB “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
- KJV This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
- BSB This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:
- NASB This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:
- NLT “These Gershonite clans will be responsible for general service and carrying loads.
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Quick answer
This verse introduces the service of the Gershonites, which involved serving and carrying burdens. Their role was the transport of the tabernacle's fabric components.
Overview
The Gershonites were responsible for the lighter, cloth elements of the tabernacle rather than its most holy furnishings or heavy frames. Defining their duty plainly prevented confusion and overlap among the clans. It illustrates that in God's house every task, however ordinary, is honorable and necessary.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Num 4:15“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
- Num 4:47from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
- Num 4:19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;
- Num 4:27At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
- Num 4:31–32This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
- Num 4:49According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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