Numbers 4:24
What does Numbers 4:24 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 4:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
KJV
King James Version · 1611This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`This <FI>is<Fi> the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve--and for burden,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752This is the office of the family of the Gersonites:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:
Context
v.23from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
v.24This passage
v.25they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 4:27
At 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 ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.
- Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear 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.
- Numbers 4:47
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,
- Numbers 4:19
but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
- Numbers 4:31
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,
- Numbers 4:49
According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
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