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Numbers 4:4
英文原文
About the most holy things - Omit "about." The sense is, "this is the charge of the sons of Kohath, the most holy things:" i. e. the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, the candlestick, and the golden altar, together with the furniture pertaining thereto. It appears, from a comparison of Numbers 4:16, Numbers 4:28, Numbers 4:33, that the ministry of the Kohathites was superintended by Eleazar, the older of the two surviving sons of Aaron; and that of the two other families by Ithamar.
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Numbers 4:6
「純藍色的」——參 Exodus 25:4 的註釋。只有約櫃的第三層、即最外層的蓋布是這顏色。陳設餅的桌子按 Numbers 4:8 有朱紅色的外層罩布；祭壇按 Numbers 4:13 則有紫色的罩布。
「把杠穿上」——也許宜作「把杠擺放整齊」。這些杠從不抽出抬約櫃所用的金環（見 Exodus 25:14-15），但仍需要調整。
英文原文
wholly of blue - Compare Exodus 25:4 note. The third and external covering of the ark only was to be of this color. The table of showbread had Numbers 4:8 an outer wrapping of scarlet; the altar Numbers 4:13 one of purple.
Put in the staves - Probably, "put the staves in order." These were never taken out of the golden rings by which the ark was to be borne (see Exodus 25:14-15), but would need adjustment.
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Numbers 4:20
「觀看聖物遮蓋的時候」——當譯作「觀看聖物片刻」。這說法按字面意思是「如吞嚥一口的工夫」，即吞嚥一次所需的瞬間。
英文原文
to see when the holy things are covered - Render: to see the holy things for an instant. The expression means Iiterally" as a gulp," i. e. for the instant it takes to swallow.
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Numbers 4:23
「進去辦理事務」（原文作「入伍服役」）——按字面、如旁註所載，是「去打那仗」；同一短語的一部分在 Numbers 4:3 譯作「進入會幕辦事」。這是用語帶有軍事色彩：事奉神乃是一場聖戰（Numbers 8:24-25 旁註讀法）。
英文原文
enter in to perform the service - literally, as in the margin, "to war the warfare," or, as the same phrase in part is rendered, Numbers 4:3, "enter into the host to do the work." The language is military. The service of God is a sacred warfare (Numbers 8:24-25 marginal reading).
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Numbers 4:28
革順子孫和米拉利子孫由亞倫的幼子以他瑪督管；他早在建造會幕時就已負責監管其工程（Exodus 38:21）。以色列群體領袖們的常設職分，就是這樣自然而然地從他們在出埃及第一年的緊急情勢下、不時受託承擔的職務中產生出來。
英文原文
The Gershonites and Merarites are superintended by Ithamar, Aaron's younger son, who had already had the oversight of the tabernacle in its construction Exodus 38:21. Thus, readily do the permanent offices of the leaders of the Israelite community spring out of the duties which, under the emergencies of the first year of the Exodus, they had been led, from time to time, to undertake.
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Numbers 4:32
「你們要按名指定這些器具」——或譯作：將這些器具逐件、「按著名字」分配給各抬扛者。這些「器具」包括會幕中較沉重的部分；這項命令的用意，似乎是要防止個別的米拉利子孫自行挑選自己的擔子，以致把超過應當份量的重擔加在別人身上。
英文原文
By name ye shall reckon the instruments - Or, assign them to their bearers singly, and "by name." These "instruments" comprised the heavier parts of the tabernacle; and the order seems intended to prevent individual Merarites choosing their own burden, and so throwing more than the proper share on others.
「論到至聖之物」——「論到」一詞宜省略。其意思是：「這是哥轄子孫所辦的事，就是至聖之物」，即約櫃、陳設餅的桌子、燈臺和金香壇，以及附屬於這些物件的器具。比較 Numbers 4:16、Numbers 4:28、Numbers 4:33 可以看出：哥轄人的事奉由亞倫兩個存活兒子中較年長的以利亞撒監督，另外兩家的職任則由以他瑪監督。