Numbers - 4:31



31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 4:31.

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And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,
These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets,
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,
And this is the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,
And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;
These are their burdens: They shall carry the panels of the tabernacle and its bars, the columns and their bases,
Haec autem erit custodia oneris filiorum Merari, pro ministerio eorum in tabernaculo conventionis, tabulae tabernaculi, et vectes ejus, et columnae ejus, et bases ejus.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And this is the charge of their burden,.... What should be committed to their care and charge, and they should bear and carry:
according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which was assigned to them as their part, and which was very heavy and cumbersome, and therefore they had wagons allowed them, Numbers 7:8,
the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof; all these belonged to the holy and to the most holy place; see Exodus 26:15.

Numbers 4:31 and Numbers 4:32, like Numbers 3:36 and Numbers 3:37. "The charge of their burden" (their carrying), i.e., the things which it was their duty to carry.

The sockets - Which were as the feet upon which the pillars stood.

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