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Num. 3:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

And the charge of the sons of Gershonp in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacleq, and the tentr, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Num. 4:24‑26• ²⁴This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:
²⁵they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of badgers' skin that is above upon it, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting,
²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance, of the gate of the court, which surroundeth the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service; and all that is to be done for these things shall they perform. (Num. 4:24‑26)

Ex. 25:9• ⁹According to all that I shall shew thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the utensils thereof, even so shall ye make it. (Ex. 25:9)

Ex. 26:1• ¹And thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them. (Ex. 26:1)

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the charge.From this and the next chapter, we see the very severe labour which the Levites were to perform, while the journeyings of the Israelites lasted.

When we consider, that there was not less than 14 tons 266 lbs. of metal employed in the tabernacle, (see note on Ex 38:24,) besides the immense weight of the skins, hangings, cords, boards, and posts, we shall find it was no easy matter to transport this moveable temple from place to place.

The Gershonites, who were 7,500 in number had to carry the tent, coverings, vail, hangings of the court, cords, etc. (ver. 25, 26); the Kohathites, who were 8,600, the ark, table, candlestick, altars, and instruments of the sanctuary (ver. 31); and the Merarites, who were 6,200, the boards, bars, sockets, and all matters connected with these belonging to the tabernacle, with the pillars of the court, their sockets, pins, and cords (ver. 36, 37).

Num. 3:7• ⁷and they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole assembly, before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. (Num. 3:7)

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Num. 4:24‑28• ²⁴This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:
²⁵they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of badgers' skin that is above upon it, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting,
²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the entrance, of the gate of the court, which surroundeth the tabernacle and the altar, and the cords thereof, and all the instruments of their service; and all that is to be done for these things shall they perform.
²⁷At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their carrying, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their carrying.
²⁸This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting, and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. (Num. 4:24‑28)

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Num. 7:7• ⁷Two waggons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service; (Num. 7:7)

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Num. 10:17• ¹⁷And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward bearing the tabernacle. (Num. 10:17)

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1 Chron. 9:14‑33• ¹⁴And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
¹⁵and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal; and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
¹⁶and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
¹⁷And the doorkeepers: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief.
¹⁸And they have been hitherto in the king's gate eastward: they were the doorkeepers in the camps of the children of Levi.
¹⁹And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers, set over the camp of Jehovah, were keepers of the entrance.
²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them formerly; Jehovah was with him.
²¹Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was doorkeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
²²All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust.
²³And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
²⁴At the four quarters were the doorkeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
²⁵And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after every seven days from time to time with them.
²⁶For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God;
²⁷for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
²⁸And part of them had the charge of the instruments of service, for by number they brought them in and by number they brought them out.
²⁹Part of them also were appointed over the vessels, and over all the holy instruments, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
³⁰And it was some one of the sons of the priests who compounded the ointment of the spices.
³¹And Mattithiah of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was in trust over the things that were made in the pans.
³²And some of the sons of the Kohathites, their brethren, were over the loaves to be set in rows, to prepare them every sabbath.
³³And these were the singers, chief fathers of the Levites, who were in the chambers free from service; for they were employed day and night. (1 Chron. 9:14‑33)

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1 Chron. 23:32• ³²and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of Jehovah. (1 Chron. 23:32)

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1 Chron. 26:21‑22• ²¹The sons of Laadan, the sons of the Gershonites of Laadan, chief fathers of Laadan the Gershonite: Jehieli;
²²the sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Jehovah. (1 Chron. 26:21‑22)

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2 Chron. 31:2,11‑18• ²And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests, and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, as well the priests as the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to serve and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the courts of Jehovah.
¹¹And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them,
¹²and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
¹³And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
¹⁴And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy things.
¹⁵And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by their divisions, to the great as to the small,
¹⁶besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register,--all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,
¹⁷--both to the priests enregistered according to their fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their divisions;
¹⁸and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy. (2 Chron. 31:2,11‑18)

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Ezra 8:28‑30• ²⁸And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.
²⁹Watch and keep them until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.
³⁰And the priests and the Levites received by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God. (Ezra 8:28‑30)

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Mark 13:34• ³⁴it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch. (Mark 13:34)

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Rom. 12:6‑8• ⁶But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
⁷or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;
⁸or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness. (Rom. 12:6‑8)

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Col. 4:17• ¹⁷And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, to the end that thou fulfil it. (Col. 4:17)

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1 Tim. 1:18• ¹⁸This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare, (1 Tim. 1:18)

the tabernacle and.

Ex. 25:9• ⁹According to all that I shall shew thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the utensils thereof, even so shall ye make it. (Ex. 25:9)

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Ex. 26:1‑14• ¹And thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them.
²The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits--one measure for all the curtains.
³Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and the other five curtains coupled one to another.
⁴And thou shalt make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make them in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.
⁵Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make at the end of the curtain in the other coupling: the loops shall be opposite to one another.
⁶And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole.
⁷And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
⁸The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits--one measure for the eleven curtains.
⁹And thou shalt couple five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the front of the tent.
¹⁰And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.
¹¹And thou shalt make fifty clasps of copper, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent, that it may be one whole.
¹²And that which remaineth hanging over of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the rear of the tabernacle.
¹³And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
¹⁴And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins over that. (Ex. 26:1‑14)

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Ex. 36:8‑19• ⁸And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work did he make them.
⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits--one measure for all the curtains.
¹⁰And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and the other five curtains coupled he one to another.
¹¹And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.
¹²He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another.
¹³And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
¹⁴And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.
¹⁵The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain--one measure for the eleven curtains.
¹⁶And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.
¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.
¹⁸And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that. (Ex. 36:8‑19)

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Ex. 40:19• ¹⁹And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above over it; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Ex. 40:19)

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Ex. 26:36‑37• ³⁶And thou shalt make for the entrance of the tent a curtain of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery.
³⁷And thou shalt make for the curtain five pillars of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five bases of copper for them. (Ex. 26:36‑37)

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Ex. 36:37‑38• ³⁷And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;
³⁸and its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting-rods with gold; and their five bases were of copper. (Ex. 36:37‑38)

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Ex. 40:28• ²⁸And he hung up the curtain of the entrance to the tabernacle. (Ex. 40:28)

J. N. Darby Translation

And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was: the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the curtaina of the entrance to the tent of meeting.

JND Translation Notes

Or "covering," so ver. 26, and ch. 4.25,26; see also Ex. 26.36.