Numbers 10:17
Good News Translation
Then the Tent would be taken down, and the clans of Gershon and Merari, who carried it, would start out.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites, who carried the tabernacle, set out.

Contemporary English Version
The sacred tent had been taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites carried it, marching behind the Judah camp.

New American Bible
Then, after the tabernacle was dismantled, the Gershonites and Merarites who carried the tabernacle set out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.

the tabernacle

Numbers 1:51 When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: whereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence.

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

the sons

Numbers 3:25,26,36,37 And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant: . . .

Numbers 4:24-33 This is the office of the family of the Gersonites: . . .

Numbers 7:6-8 Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites. . . .

Context
From Sinai to Paran
16In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. 17And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.18And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.…
Cross References
Numbers 4:21
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 10:16
In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.

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.

1 Chronicles 23:24
These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and upward.

Numbers 10:16
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