Numbers 3:31

And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

And their charge {H4931} shall be the ark {H727}, and the table {H7979}, and the candlestick {H4501}, and the altars {H4196}, and the vessels {H3627} of the sanctuary {H6944} wherewith they minister {H8334}, and the hanging {H4539}, and all the service {H5656} thereof.

They were responsible for the ark, the table, the menorah, the altars, the utensils the cohanim use when they serve in the Holy Place, the curtain, and everything involved with the maintenance of these things.

Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.

And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof.

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 25:10 (2 votes)

    ¶ And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

  • Exodus 25:40 (2 votes)

    And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

  • Exodus 26:31 (2 votes)

    ¶ And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

  • Exodus 26:33 (2 votes)

    And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy.

  • Numbers 4:4 (2 votes)

    This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy things:

  • Numbers 4:16 (2 votes)

    And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

  • Exodus 39:33 (2 votes)

    And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,