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Numbers 4:1

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר
dâbar
and — perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
יְהוָ֔ה
Yᵉhôvâh
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God
אֶל
ʼêl
near, with or among; often in general, to
מֹשֶׁ֥ה
Môsheh
Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
וְאֶֽל
ʼêl
and — near, with or among; often in general, to
אַהֲרֹ֖ן
ʼAhărôwn
Aharon, the brother of Moses
לֵאמֹֽר
ʼâmar
to/for — to say (used with great latitude)
Numbers 4:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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Numbers 4:1New

Chapter 4 is a second, narrower census within the same tribe: not every Levite male from a month old, but specifically those aged 30 to 50 - the working years for the physical job of carrying the tabernacle apart and reassembling it at every stop on a forty-year, on-again-off-again march.

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