Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Assigned sacred burden-bearing service

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A motif of the Sacred Exchange and Reciprocity family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

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jewish christian

  • Numbers Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Footnotes / Chapter 4; lines 452-468 confidence: high

    Moses, Aaron, and the princes of Israel count all Levites by families and fathers’ houses; those aged thirty to fifty enter work of service and burden-bearing in the Tent of Meeting; the total is eight thousand five hundred eighty.

    Eligible Levites are counted according to service and burden, specifically for work and burden-bearing in the Tent of Meeting.

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