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Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 10:13
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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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In vv. 13-28 the removal of the different camps is more fully described, according to the order of march established in ch. 2, the order in which the different sections of the Levites drew out and marched being particularly described in this place alone (cf. Num 10:17 and Num 10:21 with Num 2:17). First of all (lit., "at the beginning") the banner of Judah drew out, with Issachar and Zebulun ( Num 10:14-16; cf. Num 2:3-9). The tabernacle was then taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites broke up, carrying those portions of its which were assigned to them ( Num 10:17; cf. Num 4:24., and Num 4:31.), that they might set up the dwelling at the place to be chosen for the next encampment, before the Kohathites arrived with the sacred things ( Num 10:21). The banner of Reuben followed next with Simeon and Gad ( Num 10:18-21; cf. Num 2:10-16), and the Kohathites joined them bearing the sacred things ( Num 10:21). המּקדּשׁ (= הקּדשׁ, Num 7:9, and הקּדשׁים קדשׁ, Num 4:4) signifies the sacred things mentioned in Num 3:31. In Num 10:21 the subject is the Gershonites and Merarites, who had broken up before with the component parts of the dwelling, and set up the dwelling, עד־בּאם, against their (the Kohathites') arrival, so that they might place the holy things at once within it. Numbers 10:22
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