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Numbers 4:27
New English Translation
Numbers 4:27
New English Translation
27 “All the service of the Gershonites, whether[a] carrying loads[b] or for any of their work, will be at the direction of[c] Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks[d] as their responsibility.
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- Numbers 4:27 tn The term “whether” is supplied to introduce the enumerated parts of the explanatory phrase.
- Numbers 4:27 tn Here again is the use of the noun “burden” in the sense of the loads they were to carry (see the use of carts in Num 7:7).
- Numbers 4:27 tn The expression is literally “upon/at the mouth of” (עַל־פִּי, ʿal pi); it means that the work of these men would be under the direct orders of Aaron and his sons.
- Numbers 4:27 tn Or “burden.”
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