Numbers 3:29

The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
families	מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת mish.pe.Chot	H4940	a family · noun, common feminine plural construct
sons	בְּנֵי be.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Kohath	קְהָ֖ת ke.Hat	H6955	Kehath · proper noun, a man's name
pitch	יַחֲנ֑וּ ya.cha.Nu	H2583	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
side	יֶ֥רֶךְ Ye.rekh	H3409	the thigh (from its fleshy softness) · noun, common feminine singular construct
tabernacle	הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן ha.mish.Kan	H4908	a residence (including a shepherd's hut · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
southward	תֵּימָֽנָה tei.Ma.nah	H8486	the south (as being on the right hand of a person facin… · noun, common feminine singular absolute + directional suffix

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Cross-references

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:…
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…
Numbers 3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:14-39

The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num 3:15. The rest of the tribes were numbered only from twenty years old and upwards, and of them those only that were able to go forth to war; but into the number of the Levites they must take in both infants, and infirm; being exempted from the war, it was not insisted upon that they should be of age and strength for the wars. Though it appears afterwards that little more than a third part of the Levites were fit to be employed in the service of the ta…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14

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 [Num 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 [Num 1:3], from which the Levites were totally exempt. But the Levites were appointed to a work on which they entered as soon as they were capable of instruction. They are mentioned under the names of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, sons of Levi, and chiefs or ancestral heads of three subdivisions…

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John Gill on Numbers 3:29

The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. Or to the right, which was the more honourable place, excepting the east or front, which was reserved for Moses and Aaron, and his sons, and who were one of these families; and is the reason why this honour was conferred upon them, as well as they had the more honourable charge, having the holy places and holy things committed to their care; and one from among them was appointed over all the Levites, and the chief of them, as they had also, when they came into the land of Canaan, almost as many cities of refuge as both their other brethren had: their situation about the tabernacle was between that and the…

Dictionary and topics

Camp — During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Ex. 16:13; Num. 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position of the…
Gershon — =Ger’shom expulsion, the eldest of Levi’s three sons (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). In the wilderness the sons of Gershon had charge of the fabrics of the tabernacle when it was moved from place to place,…
Kohathites — The descendants of Kohath. They formed the first of the three divisions of the Levites (Ex. 6:16, 18; Num. 3:17). In the journeyings of the Israelites they had the charge of the most holy portion of…
Levites, The · Encamped round the tabernacle — Encamped round the tabernacle
Tabernacle · The Levites: Pitched their tents around — The Levites: Pitched their tents around

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Numbers 3:29

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:14-39

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14

John Gill on Numbers 3:29

Dictionary and topics

Numbers 3:29

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:14-39

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14

John Gill on Numbers 3:29

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Numbers 3:5–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 3:27-31

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 3:28

Rashi on Numbers 3:29