Numeri 1:51

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Wanneer de tabernakel optrekt, zullen de Levieten hem afbreken, en wanneer de tabernakel halt houdt, zullen de Levieten hem opslaan; de leek die nadert zal ter dood gebracht worden.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En wanneer de woning zal optrekken, zullen de Levieten haar uit elkander nemen; en wanneer het heir zich zal legeren, zullen zij de woning opslaan, en indien een vreemde daarbij komt, zal hij moeten sterven.

Staten Vertaling
En als de tabernakel zal optrekken, de Levieten zullen denzelven afnemen; en wanneer de tabernakel zich legeren zal, zullen de Levieten denzelven oprichten; en de vreemde, die daarbij komt, zal gedood worden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Levites: Numbers 4:5-33, Numbers 10:11, Numbers 10:17-21

the stranger: Numbers 3:10, Numbers 3:38, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 18:22, Leviticus 22:10-13, 1 Samuel 6:19, 2 Samuel 6:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:33 - a stranger Numbers 10:21 - the other did Numbers 17:13 - Whosoever Numbers 18:4 - a stranger 1 Kings 13:33 - whosoever

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the tabernacle setteth forward,.... Or was about to set forward; that is, the congregation were about to journey, and take the tabernacle with them, as they always did, when and wherever they journeyed:

the Levites shall take it down; unpin it, take the boards and pillars out of their sockets, and the bars out of their places, and the whole into pieces, in order to be put into wagons prepared to carry them, of which mention is made in a following chapter;

and when the tabernacle is pitched, the Levites shall set it up; at whatsoever place the congregation encamped and took up their abode for any time: the tabernacle was pitched in the manner as tents are, when the Levites put the several parts together, laid the sockets, put in the boards and the bars, and also the pillars of the court and elsewhere, and hung the hangings upon them; and set the candlestick, tables, altars, ark, and all the vessels of the sanctuary in their proper places:

and the stranger that cometh nigh; to meddle with or touch the above things, to assist in taking down or setting up the tabernacle, or bearing any of the vessels of it: by a stranger is meant, not one of another nation, nor a proselyte, whether of the gate or of righteousness; but, as Aben Ezra interprets it, one that is a stranger from the sons of Levi, who is not of that tribe, even though an Israelite:

shall be put to death; either the sanhedrim or court of judicature shall condemn and put him to death, as the same writer observes; or he shall die by the hand of heaven, as Jarchi; that is, by the immediate hand of God, or with flaming fire from before the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan; as Uzzah was smote, and died by the ark of God for touching it, 2 Samuel 5:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for service in the field.

Numbers 1:48

had spoken - Render spake. The formal appointment is only now made, in reward for their zeal Exodus 32:26-29, though reference to their future office appears previously in Leviticus 25:32 ff, and they had already acted as assistants to the priests (compare Exodus 38:21).