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Eleazar stands by a closed sanctuary curtain with two custodians nearby.
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Numbers 3:27-32

The Kohathite charge

The Levites and the firstborn · Numbers 3

Story guide: Contextual illustration of Eleazar’s oversight of those entrusted with the sanctuary.

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27And for Kohath: the clan of the Amramites, and the clan of the Izharites, and the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites—these are the clans of the Kohathites.

28By the number of every male from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping charge of the holy place.

29The clans of the sons of Kohath shall camp on the south side of the tabernacle.

30And the chief of the ancestral house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31And their duty was the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.

32And the chief over the chiefs of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, having oversight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.

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