Numbers 3:29
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers 3:29 in other translations
| BSB | The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle, |
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| WEB | The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. |
| ASV | The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward. |
| YLT | The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward. |
| DARBY | The families of the sons of Kohath encamped on the side of the tabernacle southward. |
| BBE | The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. |
| Webster | The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. |
What does Numbers 3:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14-31
14-31. Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious. In the other tribes the survey was made for purposes of war [Nu…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 3:14-39
The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Moses did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure any honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's…
Numbers 3:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 3:29
- Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
- Numbers 2:10
On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 3:23
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
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Context
- Numbers 3:28
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.
- Numbers 3:29
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
- Numbers 3:30
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers 3:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Las familias de los hijos de Coath acamparán al lado del tabernáculo, al mediodía; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les familles des fils de Kehath campèrent à côté du tabernacle, vers le midi; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Familien der Söhne Kehaths lagerten an der Seite der Wohnung gegen Süden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et castrametabuntur ad meridianam plagam. |