Numbers 4:4
Good News Translation
Their service involves the most holy things.

New Revised Standard Version
The service of the Kohathites relating to the tent of meeting concerns the most holy things.

Contemporary English Version
The Kohathites will be responsible for carrying the sacred objects used in worship at the sacred tent.

New American Bible
This is the task of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting: the most sacred objects.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the service of the sons of Caath:

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This is the service of the sons of Caath:

Numbers 4:15,19,24,30 And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant: . . .

Numbers 3:30,31 And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel: . . .

Mark 13:34 Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch.

Context
The Duties of the Kohathites
3From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. 4This is the service of the sons of Caath:5When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it,…
Cross References
Numbers 4:3
From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 4:5
When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it,

Numbers 10:21
Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.

Numbers 4:3
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