Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Numbers 3

^{1 a} Or families & kinreds.

^{4 b} Or, before the Altar.

^{4 c} Whiles their father liued.

^{6 !} The charge and office of the Leuites.

^{6 d} Offer them vnto Aaron for the vse of the Tabernacle.

^{7 e} Which apperteined to the executing of the hie Priests commandement, to the ouer sight of the people, & to the seruice of the Tabernacle.

^{9 f} Aarons sonnes the Priests serued in the Sanctuarie in praying for the people & offring sacrifice: the Leuites serued for the inferior vses of the same.

^{10 g} Nnie that wolde minister, not being a Leuite.

^{12 !} Why the Lord separated the Leuites for him selfe.

^{16 !} Their nomber, families and captaines.

^{22 h} Onelie nombring the male children.

^{24 /} Or father.

^{25 i} Their charge was to carry the couerings & hangings of the Tabernacle.

^{28 k} Doing euerie one his dutie in the Sanctuarie.

^{31 l} The chief things within the Sanctuarie were committed to the Kohathites.

^{32 /} Or prince of princes.

^{36 m} The woodworke & the rest of the instruments were committed to their charge.

^{38 n} That none shulde entre into the Tabernacle contrarie to Gods appointment.

^{39 o} So that the firstborne of the children of Israel were more by 273.

^{40 !} The firstborne of Israel is redemed by the Leuites.

^{41 p} So that now the Leuites shulde sacrifice vnto the Lord for the first borne of Israel saue for the 273 which were mo then the Leuites, for whome they payed money.

^{47 !} The ouerplus is redemed by money.

^{50 q} of the two hundreth seuentie & thre, which were more then the Leuites.