OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 4:27

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At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.

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Verse 27. Assigned. Hebrew “you shall count over to them what they have to carry.” Septuagint “you shall call (the Levites) by name, and all that shall be intrusted to them,” verse 32. Calmet.—From the different offices of the priests and Levites in the old law, Innocent III. takes occasion to shew the distinction of the orders in the Christian Church. De S. Altar. 2. ad 7.

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