and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
We have here the charge of the other two families of the Levites, which, though not so honourable as the first, yet was necessary, and was to be done regularly. 1. The Gershonites were charged with all the drapery of the tabernacle, the curtains, and hangings, and the coverings of badgers' skins, Num 4:22-26.
Commenting on Numbers 4:21-33
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,.... See Gill on Num 4:34. . Numbers 4:36 num 4:36 num 4:36 num 4:36And those that were numbered of them by their families,.... See Gill on Num 4:34.
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden. (r) You shall take inventory of all the things, which you commit to their charge.