Numbers 10:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.”
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“Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: andthe others did set up the tabernacle against their coming.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the <FI>others<Fi> have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 10:21 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 1:51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
- Numbers 2:17In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.
- Numbers 3:27From Kohath came the clans of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites.
- Numbers 4:4This service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.
- Numbers 4:15When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:20But the Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die.”
- Numbers 7:9But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.
- Numbers 10:17Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
- 1 Chronicles 15:2Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”
- 1 Chronicles 15:12And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
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