Numbers 4:24-28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

This is the service ... They were appointed to carry "the curtains of the tabernacle" - i:e., the goats' hair covering of the tent-the ten curious curtains and embroidered hangings at the entrance, with their red morocco covering, etc.

Verse 28. Their charge shall be ... The Levites were subject to the official command of the priests generally in doing the ordinary work of the tabernacle. But during the journeyings Eleazar, who was next in succession to his father, took the special charge of the Kohathites, while his brother Ithamar had the superintendence of the Gershonites and Merarites.

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Numbers 4:24-28

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:d

25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.

27 At the appointmente of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.