King James Version
Numbers 4:5 in the King James Version says “And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:”
Numbers 4:5 · KJV
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.
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: cover: or, pour out withal
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“and his sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“setteth forward”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“And when the camp”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“and they shall take down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and cover”
H3680properly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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