KJV King James Version
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:
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Numbers 4:5
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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.
WEB World English Bible
When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
ASV American Standard Version
when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;
Surrounding context — Numbers 4
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy things:
5 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:
6 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.
7 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:
8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
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וּבָ֨אH935 · boto come (in): comeאַהֲרֹ֤ןH175 · a.ha.ronAaronוּבָנָיו֙H1121 · benson: childבִּנְסֹ֣עַH5265 · na.sato set outהַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הH4264 · ma.cha.nehcampוְהוֹרִ֕דוּH3381 · ya.radto go downאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]פָּרֹ֣כֶתH6532 · po.re.khetcurtainהַמָּסָ֑ךְH4539 · ma.sakhcoveringוְכִ֨סּוּ־H3680 · ka.sahto coverבָ֔הּH9034 · haherאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]אֲרֹ֥ןH727 · a.ronarkהָעֵדֻֽת׃H5715 · e.duttestimony
Cross-references
Hebrews 9:3And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;Exodus 37:1-9And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [was] the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:Exodus 36:35And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work.Numbers 2:16-17All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.Numbers 10:14In the first [place] went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab.2 Samuel 6:2-9And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.Numbers 3:27-32And 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.Exodus 26:31-33And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:Exodus 25:10-22And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.Numbers 4:15And 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.Exodus 40:3And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.Hebrews 10:20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;Isaiah 25:7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
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