They were to keep watch over the Tent of Meeting, the Holy Place and the sons of Aaron their kinsmen for avodah in the House of Adonai.
Numbers 3:25 - Tree of Life Version The duties of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting were the Tabernacle, the tent, its coverings, the curtain of the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of Meeting, American Standard Version (1901) And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, Common English Bible In the dwelling, the Gershonites were responsible for the meeting tent, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the meeting tent, Catholic Public Domain Version And they shall keep watch over the tabernacle of the covenant: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant: |
They were to keep watch over the Tent of Meeting, the Holy Place and the sons of Aaron their kinsmen for avodah in the House of Adonai.
Then Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the kohanim and the Levites together with their divisions, each of the kohanim and Levites according to his service: for burnt offerings, peace offerings, to minister, to praise, or to sing praises in the gates of the courts of Adonai.
You are to make it all precisely according to everything that I show you—the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all the furnishings within—just so you must make it.
Then he spread the tent over the Tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on it, just as Adonai had commanded Moses.
Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its implements and all pertaining to it. They are to carry the Tabernacle and all its utensils, tend to it and camp around it.
Then the Tabernacle was disassembled, and the sons of Gershon and Merari, who were carrying it, set out.
The prince of the ancestral house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
They are to keep watch over duties for him and the entire community before the Tent of Meeting while performing the service of the Tabernacle.
He gave two carts and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, as their work required,
It is like a man away on a journey. After leaving his house and putting his servants in charge and giving each his task, he also commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
Tell Archippus, “See to it that you complete the service you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”
This charge I entrust to you, Timothy my son, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, so that by them you fight the good fight,