Numbers 10:21

New American Bible - revised edition

The Kohathites, who carried the sacred objects, then set out. Before their arrival the tabernacle would be erected.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:2

At that time he said, “No one may carry the ark of God except the Levites, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.”

1 Chronicles 23:24

These were the sons of Levi according to their ancestral houses, the family heads as they were enrolled one by one according to their names. They performed the work of the service of the house of the Lord beginning at twenty years of age.

Numbers 1:51

When the tabernacle is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; when the tabernacle is to be pitched, it is the Levites who shall set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it shall be put to death.

Numbers 10:17

Then, after the tabernacle was dismantled, the Gershonites and Merarites who carried the tabernacle set out.

Numbers 10:20

and Eliasaph, son of Reuel, over the company of the tribe of Gadites.

Numbers 2:17

Then the tent of meeting and the camp of the Levites shall set out in the midst of the divisions. As they camp, so also they will march, each in place, by their divisions.

Numbers 4:20

but the Kohathites shall not go in to look upon the sacred objects even for an instant, or they will die.

Numbers 7:9

He gave none to the Kohathites, because they were responsible for maintenance of the sacred objects that had to be carried on their shoulders.