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Lexicon :: Strong's H168 - 'ōhel

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אֹהֶל
Transliteration
'ōhel
Pronunciation
o'-hel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 32a

Strong’s Definitions

אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x

The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x
The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

  1. tent

    1. nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience

    2. dwelling, home, habitation

    3. the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.
STRONGS H168: Abbreviations
אֹ֫הֶל 343 noun masculineGenesis 13:3 tent (compare Assyrian âlu, above, Arabic اٌَهْل, fellow-dwellers, family, Sabean אהל DHMZMG 1883, 341 and others, also in proper names Sabean & Phoenician see H171 אהליאב) — absolute א׳ Genesis 4:20 +; construct id. Exodus 28:43 +; אֹ֫הֱלָה (ה locative) Genesis 18:6 +; suffix אָהֳלִי Job 29:4 +; אָֽהָלִךָ Psalm 61:5; אָֽהֳלֹה Genesis 9:21 + 3 times (see DrSm xxxv); plural אֹהָלִים Genesis 13:5 + (Ges§ 23. 3); בָֽאֳהָלִים Judges 8:11 +; construct אָהֳלֵי Numbers 16:26 +; suffix אֹהָלַי Jeremiah 4:20; אֹהָלֶיךָ Numbers 24:5 +; אָהֳלֵיכֶם Joshua 22:8 +, etc. —
1. tent of nomad Songs 1:5; Jeremiah 6:3; Jeremiah 49:29; ישֵׁב א׳ dweller in tents Genesis 4:20; Genesis 25:27 (J); אָהֳלֵי מִקְנֶה tents of cattle 2 Chronicles 14:14; of soldier 1 Samuel 17:54 compare Dr, Jeremiah 37:10; 1 Kings 8:66 לְאֹהָלֶיךָ, ישׂראל, exclamation, to thy tents, Israel ! 1 Kings 12:16 (twice in verse) compare 2 Chronicles 10:16; 2 Samuel 20:1 (but compare Dr, 1 Samuel 17:54); of pleasure-tent on house-top 2 Samuel 16:22 (= bridal-tent, bridal pavilion, compare חֻפָּה Psalm 19:5; Joel 2:16 see RSKinship 168).
2. dwelling, habitation; Psalm 91:10 לְאֹהָלֶ֑ךָ home (literally to thy tents, plural) Judges 19:9 (after הלך); א׳ בֵּיתִי habitation of my house Psalm 132:3 compare Daniel 11:45; דוד א׳ habitation or palace of David where throne erected Isaiah 16:5; בַת צִיּוֺן א׳ house of daughter of Zion (= Jerusalem) Lamentations 2:4; אָהֲלֵי יַעֲקֹב Jeremiah 30:18; Malachi 2:12 (|| מִשְׁכָּן); יְהוּדָה א׳ Zechariah 12:7 (|| בית דוד); רְשָׁעִים א׳ h. of wicked Job 8:22, compare רֶשַׁע א׳ Psalm 84:11, יְשָׁרִים א׳ Proverbs 14:11; שֹׁחַד א׳ Job 15:34; צַדִּיקִים א׳ Psalm 118:15; אֱדוֺם א׳ = Edom itself, Psalm 83:7 compare קְדָר א׳ Psalm 120:5 כוּשָׁן א׳ Habakkuk 3:7.
3. the sacred tent used in worship of God; הָאֹהֶל the tent; מוֺעֵד א׳ tent of meeting of God with his people (tent of congregation or assembly Ges MV and others) According to E Moses so called the tent which he used to pitch without the camp, afar off, into which he used to enter, & where God spake with him face to face, Exodus 33:7-11 Numbers 12:5, 10; Deuteronomy 31:14, 15; J seems to have same conception of an מ׳ א׳ outside the camp, Numbers 11:24, 26; D has no allusion to such a tent; P mentions it + 131 times as מ׳ א׳; + 19 times as הָאֹהֶל (compare Ezekiel 41:1) & הָעֵדוּת א׳, tent of the testimony Numbers 9:15; Numbers 17:22; Numbers 17:23; Numbers 18:2 (as containing ark & tables of the testimony) compare 2 Chronicles 24:6; this tent sometimes confounded with the מִשְׁכָּן but distinguished in מ׳ מִשְׁכַּן א׳ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2, 6, 29, compare 1 Chronicles 6:17; הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְהָאֹהֶל Numbers 3:25; אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְאֶת־אָהֳלוֺ Exodus 35:11; tent was of three layers of skins, goatskins, ramskins, & tachash skins, each layer of eleven pieces stretched in form of a tent, covering & protecting the מִשְׁכָּן, which was in form of parallelopip. (Exodus 26). An אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד was at Shilo 1 Samuel 2:22 (omitted Greek Version of the LXX; see Dr) compare Psalm 78:60, called יוֺסֵף א׳ Psalm 78:67. The Mosaic מ׳ א׳ was later at Gibeon 2 Chronicles 1:3, 6, 13; courses of ministry arranged for service at מ׳ א׳ 1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 23:32 compare 1 Chronicles 9:19 (הָא׳), 1 Chronicles 9:21; 1 Chronicles 9:23 (בֵּית הָא׳); David erected an אֹהֶל for ark on Mt. Zion 2 Samuel 6:17; 1 Chronicles 15:1; 1 Chronicles 16:1; 2 Chronicles 1:4; Joab fled for refuge to יהוה א׳ 1 Kings 2:28-30; sacred oil brought from הָא׳ 1 Kings 1:39; the מוֺעֵד א׳ was taken up into temple 1 Kings 8:4 2 Chronicles 5:5; י׳ had not previously dwelt in a בַּיִת, but had gone מֵאֹהֶל אֶל־אֹהֶל from tent to tent, from one to another, 1 Chronicles 17:5, compare 2 Samuel 7:6; יהוה א׳ (|| בַּיִת & הַר קֹדֶשׁ) is refuge & dwelling-place of righteous, Psalm 15:1; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 27:6; Psalm 61:5 (compare Psalm 90:1).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:20; 4:20; 9:21; 13:3; 13:5; 18:6; 25:27

Exodus

26; 28:43; 33:7; 33:8; 33:9; 33:10; 33:11; 35:11; 39:32; 40:2; 40:6; 40:29

Numbers

3:25; 9:15; 11:24; 11:26; 12:5; 12:10; 16:26; 18:2; 24:5

Deuteronomy

31:14; 31:15

Joshua

22:8

Judges

8:11; 19:9

1 Samuel

2:22; 17:54; 17:54

2 Samuel

6:17; 7:6; 16:22; 20:1

1 Kings

1:39; 2:28; 2:29; 2:30; 8:4; 8:66; 12:16

1 Chronicles

6:17; 6:17; 9:19; 9:21; 9:23; 15:1; 16:1; 17:5; 23:32

2 Chronicles

1:3; 1:4; 1:6; 1:13; 5:5; 10:16; 14:14; 24:6

Job

8:22; 15:34; 29:4

Psalms

15:1; 19:5; 27:5; 27:6; 61:5; 61:5; 78:60; 78:67; 83:7; 84:11; 90:1; 91:10; 118:15; 120:5; 132:3

Proverbs

14:11

Song of Songs

1:5

Isaiah

16:5

Jeremiah

4:20; 6:3; 30:18; 37:10; 49:29

Lamentations

2:4

Ezekiel

41:1

Daniel

11:45

Joel

2:16

Habakkuk

3:7

Zechariah

12:7

Malachi

2:12

H168

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Strong's Number H168 matches the Hebrew אֹהֶל ('ōhel),
which occurs 348 times in 314 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Lev 14:23–Num 9:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23 - And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:7 - And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - And there shall be no man in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:23 - And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:5 - To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6 - And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:21 - And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle H168 of the congregation shall they pitch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - Then the tabernacle H168 of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, H168 the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle H168 of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3 - From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:4 - This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, about the most holy things:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:23 - From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25 - And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:30 - From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:35 - From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:37 - These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:39 - From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:41 - These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:43 - From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47 - From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 - And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:89

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle H168 of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle H168 of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle H168 of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle H168 of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent H168 of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, H168 then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

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