instruments. vessels or furniture.
Israel. The whole nation was responsible for this charge, but Levi was taken in substitution for the firstborn. Compare verses: Numbers 3:38; Numbers 3:41, and Compare Numbers 8:16; Exodus 13:11-16.
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Numbers 3:8
8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.