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New American Standard Bible

Numbers 10:21

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Kohath;   Kohathites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sanctuary;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Camp;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Merari;   Numbers, the Book of;   Tabernacle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kohath, Kohathites;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Numbers as Symbols;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Kohathites also went forward and bare the Sanctuarie, and the former did set vp the Tabernacle against they came.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the Kohathites set forward, carrying the sanctuary; and they set up the tabernacle before the people came.
Hebrew Names Version
The Kehati set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then came the Kohath family. They carried the holy things from inside the Holy Tent. These people came at this time so that the other people could set up the Holy Tent and make it ready at the new camp before these people arrived.
English Standard Version
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
American Standard Version
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming.
Bible in Basic English
Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.
Contemporary English Version
Next were the Kohathites, carrying the objects for the sacred tent, which was to be set up before they arrived at the new camp.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the descendants of K'hat set out, carrying the sanctuary, so that [at the next camp] the tabernacle could be set up before they arrived.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.
King James Version (1611)
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the Sanctuary, and the other did set vp the Tabernacle against they came.
Amplified Bible
Then the Kohathites moved out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Caath shall set forward bearing the holy things, and the others shall set up the tabernacle until they arrive.
English Revised Version
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.
Lexham English Bible
The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
Literal Translation
And the Kohathites pulled up stakes , bearing the sanctuary. And others set up the tabernacle while they came.
New Century Version
Then came the Kohathites, who carried the holy things; the Holy Tent was to be set up before they arrived.
New English Translation
And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.
New King James Version
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. (The tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)
New Living Translation
Next came the Kohathite division of the Levites, carrying the sacred objects from the Tabernacle. Before they arrived at the next camp, the Tabernacle would already be set up at its new location.
New Life Bible
Then the Kohathites left, carrying the holy objects. The meeting tent was set up before they came to the next place.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then set forward the Kohathites, bearing the sanctuary, - and so the habitation was reared by the time they came in.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.
Revised Standard Version
Then the Ko'hathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
Good News Translation
Then the Levite clan of Kohath would start out, carrying the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the Tent had been set up again.
King James Version
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
Darby Translation
And the Kohathites set forward bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] set up the tabernacle whilst they came.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Caath yeden forth, and baren the seyntuarie; so longe the tabernacle was borun, til thei camen to the place of reisyng therof.
Young's Literal Translation
And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the [others] have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.
World English Bible
The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
Update Bible Version
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] had set up the tabernacle against their coming.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the Kohathites moved forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the other] set up the tabernacle against they came.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Caathites also went forwarde and bare the sanctuarie, & the other dyd set vp the tabernacle against they came.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then wente the Rahathites forwarde also, and bare the Sanctuary, and caused ye habitacion be set vp agaynst they came.
New Revised Standard
Then the Kohathites, who carried the holy things, set out; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

Contextual Overview

11 Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the testimony; 12 and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran. 13 So they moved on for the first time in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses. 14 The flag of the camp of the sons of Judah, by their armies, set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army, 15 and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar; 16 and Eliab the son of Helon over the tribal army of the sons of Zebulun. 17 Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out. 18 Next the flag of the camp of Reuben, by their armies, set out with Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army, 19 and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of Simeon, 20 and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Kohathites: Numbers 2:17, Numbers 3:27-32, Numbers 4:4-16, Numbers 7:9, 1 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Chronicles 15:12-15

the other did: that is, the Gershonites and the Merarites, Numbers 10:17, Numbers 1:51

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:30 - rear up the tabernacle Numbers 1:50 - shall encamp Numbers 3:8 - General Numbers 4:15 - after that 1 Chronicles 23:24 - the sons of Levi

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:26
Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Numbers 24:24
"But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall oppress Asshur and oppress Eber; So they also will come to destruction."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Kohathites set forward,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psalms 80:2;

bearing the sanctuary, or the holy things, as Jarchi; the ark, as Aben Ezra; though not that only, which indeed might be eminently called so, it standing in the most holy place, over which were the mercy seat and cherubim, the residence of the divine Majesty; but all the holy things in the holy place, the candlestick, shewbread table, and the two altars, the altar of incense in the holy place, and the altar of burnt offerings in the court these they bore on their shoulders, and had no wagons allowed for their assistance:

and [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came; that is, the sons of Gershon and Merari, who went before between the standard of Judah and the standard of Reuben, carrying the heavier and more cumbersome parts of the tabernacle; which, when Judah pitched their tents, at the signal of the cloud, they immediately put together, and erected, and got it ready, by such time as the Kohathites came up to them, that so the ark and other holy things might be at once put into it, and set in their proper places.


 
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