Numbers 10:21
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
Numbers 10:21 in other translations
| BSB | Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival. |
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| WEB | The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived. |
| ASV | And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming. |
| YLT | And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in. |
| DARBY | And the Kohathites set forward bearing the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle whilst they came. |
| BBE | Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming. |
| Webster | And the Kohathites moved forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other set up the tabernacle against they came. |
What does Numbers 10:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 10:13-27
13-27. the children of Israel took their journey ... by the hand of Moses--It is probable that Moses, on the breaking up of the encampment, stationed himself on some eminence to see the ranks defile in order through the embouchure of the mountains. The marching order is described (Nu 2:1-34); but, as the vast horde is represented here in actual migration, let us notice the extraordinary care that was taken for…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 10:11-28
After the Israelites had continued nearly a year at mount Sinai, and all was settled respecting their future worship, they began their march to Canaan. True religion begins with the knowledge of the holy law of God, and humiliation for sin, but we must go on towards perfection, in acquaintance with Christ and his gospel, and those effectual encouragements, motives, and assistances to holiness, which it proposes…
Numbers 10:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 10:21
- Numbers 10:17
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
- Numbers 4:4-16
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: …
- Numbers 7:9
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.
- Numbers 3:27-32
And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. …
- Numbers 4:20
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
- Numbers 2:17
Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
- 1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.
- 1 Chronicles 15:12-15
And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.
- Numbers 1:51
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
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Context
- Numbers 10:20
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
- Numbers 10:21
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
- Numbers 10:22
And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 10:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Luego comenzaron á marchar los Coathitas llevando el santuario; y entre tanto que ellos llegaban, los otros acondicionaron el tabernáculo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Puis les Kehathites partirent, portant le sanctuaire; et on dressa le tabernacle, en attendant leur arrivée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Kehathiter brachen auf, welche das Heiligtum trugen; und jene richteten die Wohnung auf, bis diese kamen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Profectique sunt et Caathitæ portantes sanctuarium. Tamdiu tabernaculum portabatur, donec venirent ad erectionis locum. |