King James Version
What Does Numbers 4:2 Mean?
“Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,”
Context
1
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
4
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English ReadersIV.
(2) **Of the sons of Kohath . . . —**Kohath appears to have been the second son of Levi (Numbers 3:17), but the Kohathites here stand first because Moses and Aaron belonged to them, and it was their office to bear the Ark.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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