Numbers 4 · Verse 24

Numbers 4:24

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
Numbers 4:24, King James Version

Numbers 4:24 in other translations

BSBThis is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:
WEB“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
ASVThis is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
YLT‘This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve--and for burden,
DARBYThis shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:
BBEThis is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.
WebsterThis is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

What does Numbers 4:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 4:24-28
24-28. This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, &c.--They were appointed to carry "the curtains of the tabernacle"--that is, the goats' hair covering of the tent--the ten curious curtains and embroidered hangings at the entrance, with their red morocco covering, &c.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 4:21-33

We have here the charge of the other two families of the Levites, which, though not so honourable as the first, yet was necessary, and to be done regularly. All the things were delivered them by name. It intimates the care God takes of his church and every member of it. The death of the saints is represented as the taking down of the tabernacle, 2Co 5:1, and the putting it off, 2Pe 1:14. All shall be raised up in…

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Numbers 4:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֹ֣אתzotthisH2063
עֲבֹדַ֔ת'a.vo.Dat[is] [the] service ofH5656
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖תmish.pe.Chot[the] clans ofH4940
הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑יha.ge.re.shu.Nithe Gershonite[s]H1649
לַעֲבֹ֖דla.'a.Vodto serveH5647
וּלְמַשָּֽׂא\׃u.le.ma.Sa'and for carryingH4853

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 4:24

  • Numbers 4:27

    At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

  • Numbers 4:15

    And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Numbers 4:47

    From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

  • Numbers 4:31-32

    And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.

  • Numbers 4:19

    But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

  • Numbers 4:49

    According to the commandment of the Lord they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
burdens. or, carriage.
15,19,27,31,32,47,49

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Context

  • Numbers 4:23

    From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Numbers 4:24

    This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

  • Numbers 4:25

    And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

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Numbers 4:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Este será el oficio de las familias de Gersón, para ministrar y para llevar:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		C’est ici le service des familles des Guershonites, pour servir et pour porter:
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dies ist der Dienst der Familien der Gersoniter im Dienen und im Tragen:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hoc est officium familiæ Gersonitarum,