Numbers 3:7
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3:7They are responsible for his needs18 and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending19 to the service of the tabernacle.
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- 18 The Hebrew text uses the perfect tense of שָׁמַר(shamar) with a vav (ו) consecutive to continue the instruction of the preceding verse. It may be translated “and they shall keep” or “they must/are to keep,” but in this context it refers to their appointed duties. The verb is followed by its cognate accusative—“they are to keep his keeping,” or as it is often translated, “his charge.” This would mean whatever Aaron needed them to do. But the noun is also used for the people in the next phrase, and so “charge” cannot be the meaning here. The verse is explaining that the Levites will have duties to perform to meet the needs of Aaron and the congregation.
- 19 The form is the Qal infinitive construct from עָבַד (’avad, “to serve, to work”); it is taken here as a verbal noun and means “by (or in) serving” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 36, §195). This explains the verb “keep [his charge].” Here too the form is followed by a cognate accusative; they will be there to “serve the service” or “work the work.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
They are to perform duties for him and the entire community before the tent of meeting by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
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NLTNew Living Translation
They will serve Aaron and the whole community, performing their sacred duties in and around the Tabernacle.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
They shall observe his duties and the duties of the entire community before the tent of assembly, to do the work of the tabernacle.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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