Numbers 7:9 - Easy To Read Version

⁹ Moses did not give any cows or wagons to the men in Kohath’s group. Why? Because their job was to carry the holy things on their shoulders.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were assigned the care of the sanctuary and the holy things which had to be carried on their shoulders.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.

Common English Bible

⁹ But to the Kohathites he gave nothing because their duty concerned the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ But to the sons of Kohath he gave no wagons or oxen, because they serve in the Sanctuary and they carry their burdens on their shoulders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

Numbers 7:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:13

When the {men} that carried the Lord’s Holy Box had walked six steps, {they stopped and} David sacrificed a bull and a fat calf.

2 Samuel 6:3

David’s men brought the Holy Box out of Abinadab’s house on the hill. Then they put God’s Holy Box on a new wagon. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were driving the new wagon.

2 Samuel 6:6

When David’s men came to the threshing floor [38] of Nacon, the cows stumbled, and God’s Holy Box began to fall off the wagon. Uzzah caught the Holy Box.

1 Kings 8:3

All of the elders of Israel arrived at that place. Then the priests took the Holy Box. [103]

1 Chronicles 15:13

The last time we did not ask the Lord how to carry the Box of the Agreement. You Levites did not carry it, and that is why the Lord punished us.”

1 Chronicles 15:3

David told all the people of Israel to meet together at Jerusalem \{while the Levites carried\} the Box of the Agreement {\cf2\super [153]} to the place he had made for it.

1 Chronicles 23:26

So the Levites don’t need to carry the Holy Tent {\cf2\super [251]} or any of the things used in its services any more.”

Numbers 3:31

Their job was to take care of the Holy Box, [38] the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the dishes of the Holy Place. [39] They also cared for the curtain and all the things that were used with the curtain.