And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming.

Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they same to the place of setting it up.

And the Kohathites set forward bearing the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle whilst they came.

And the Kohathites moved forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other set up the tabernacle against they came.

And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.

Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.

Then the Kohathites also set out, carrying the Sanctuary. The tabernacle was carried, all the while, until they arrived at the place for setting it up.

Et progredi eccperunt Cehathitae portantes sanctuarium: erexerunt autem tabernaculum donec venerint ipsi.

And the Kohathites set forward, (h) bearing the sanctuary: and (i) [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came.
(h) Upon their shoulders.
(i) The Merarites and Gershonites.

And the Kohathites set forward,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psalm 80:2,
bearing the sanctuary, or the holy things, as Jarchi; the ark, as Aben Ezra; though not that only, which indeed might be eminently called so, it standing in the most holy place, over which were the mercy seat and cherubim, the residence of the divine Majesty; but all the holy things in the holy place, the candlestick, shewbread table, and the two altars, the altar of incense in the holy place, and the altar of burnt offerings in the court these they bore on their shoulders, and had no wagons allowed for their assistance:
and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came; that is, the sons of Gershon and Merari, who went before between the standard of Judah and the standard of Reuben, carrying the heavier and more cumbersome parts of the tabernacle; which, when Judah pitched their tents, at the signal of the cloud, they immediately put together, and erected, and got it ready, by such time as the Kohathites came up to them, that so the ark and other holy things might be at once put into it, and set in their proper places.

The others - The Gershonites, and Merarites, who therefore marched after the first camp, a good distance from, and before the Kohathites, that they might prepare the tabernacle for the reception of its utensils, which the Kohathites brought some time after them.