Then Dawiḏ said, “No one is to lift the ark of Elohim but the Lĕwites, for יהוה has chosen them to lift the ark of Elohim and to serve Him forever.”
Numbers 10:21 - The Scriptures 2009 And the Qehathites departed, bearing the set-apart objects, while the Dwelling Place was set up before they came. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived. American Standard Version (1901) And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming. Common English Bible The Kohathites, who carried the holy things, marched. The dwelling would be set up before their arrival. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they same to the place of setting it up. |
Then Dawiḏ said, “No one is to lift the ark of Elohim but the Lĕwites, for יהוה has chosen them to lift the ark of Elohim and to serve Him forever.”
These were the sons of Lĕwi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted head by head by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the House of יהוה, from the age of twenty years and above.
“And when the Dwelling Place is to go forward, the Lĕwites take it down. And when the Dwelling Place is to be set up, the Lĕwites set it up. And the stranger who comes near is put to death.
And the Dwelling Place was taken down. And the sons of Gĕrshon and the sons of Merari departed, bearing the Dwelling Place.
And over the army of the tribe of the children of Gaḏ was Elyasaph, the son of De‛u’ĕl.
And the Tent of Appointment, the camp of the Lĕwites, shall move out in the middle of the camps. As they camp, so they move out, everyone in his place, by their banners.
They are not, however, to go in to watch while the set-apart objects are being covered, lest they die.”
But to the sons of Qehath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the set-apart objects, which they bore on their shoulders.