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1 Chronicles 23:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 23:32 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they kept the keeping of the tent of meeting and the keeping of the holy place and the keeping of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of the LORD.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And that they should keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of ye holy place, and the charge of ye sonnes of Aaron their brethren in the seruice of ye house of the Lord.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of the Lord.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they have kept the charge of the Tent of Meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of their brothers, the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of YHWH.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    They were in charge of the tent of meeting, the holy place, and helped their fellow descendants of Aaron in the service of Yahweh's house.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they kept the keeping of the tent of meeting and the keeping of the holy place and the keeping of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of Jehovah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers for the service of the LORD’s house.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So the Levites were to carry out the responsibility of caring for the Tent of Meeting and the sanctuary, and with their brothers the descendants of Aaron, they served the house of the Lord.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of the LORD.

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מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת
mishmereth
H4931
“guard of”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4929

TWOT: 2414g

guard, charge, function, obligation, service, watch - guard, watch, house of detention or confinement - keeping, preserving - charge, injunction - office, function (ceremonial)
  1. וְשָׁמְר֞וּ shâmar H8104 “and · to keep” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. אֹֽהֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. מוֹעֵ֗ד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  6. מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת mishmereth H4931 “guard of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  7. הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ qôdesh H6944 “the · holiness” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וּמִשְׁמֶ֕רֶת mishmereth H4931 “and · guard of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  9. בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  10. אַהֲרֹ֖ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “Aaron” Noun, Proper
  11. אֲחֵיהֶ֑ם ʼâch H251 “brothers · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  12. לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת ʻăbôdâh H5656 “to/for · service of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  13. בֵּ֥ית bayith H1004 “house of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  14. יְהוָֽה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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15
words
12
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 12 nouns
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וְשָׁמְר֞וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת guard H4931 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 37 words from the Hebrew and 37 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 23:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
  • Numbers 3:6–9 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
  • Numbers 3:38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  • 1 Chronicles 9:27 They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
  • 1 Kings 8:4 They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 23:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׁמְר֞וּ אֶת מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת אֹֽהֶל מוֹעֵ֗ד וְאֵת֙ מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ וּמִשְׁמֶ֕רֶת בְּנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹ֖ן אֲחֵיהֶ֑ם לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה

and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 23:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί φυλάσσω ὁ φυλακή σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον καί ὁ φυλακή υἱός ἀαρών ἀδελφός αὐτός ὁ λειτουργέω ἐν οἶκος κύριος

And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 23:32 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(32) And that they should keep.—This verse sums up the functions of the Levites under three general heads: “And let them keep the charge of the tent of meeting.” The words are evidently based upon Num_18:3-5.

And the charge of the sons of Aaron.—That is, all that the priests committed to them, and required of them (1Ch_23:28) as their appointed assistants. The word rendered “charge” literally means keeping, guard, watch.

In the service.—For the service.

ADDITIONAL NOTE on 1Ch_23:28; 1Ch_23:32. The law respecting the sacred tent was naturally applied to the future Temple. It is hardly fair to say, with Reuss, that “in the perspective of the author the Tabernacle of David and the Temple of Solomon were confounded with each other.” In 1Ch_16:37-39, the chronicler has clearly distinguished two sacred tents: that of the Ark on Mount Zion, and the ancient sanctuary at Gibeon. Throughout that lengthy narrative of the transfer of the Ark, the Temple is not mentioned at all. And if in 1Ch_23:28 David speaks of “courts” and “chambers,” that only shows that the king meant his assignation of the duties of the Levites to be permanent. Nor will it make much difference if we allow that the writer, in speaking of David’s tent, has used language more applicable to the Temple of Solomon. The functions of the Levites in both would be essentially the same. The great historian Ewald believed the whole section, 1Ch_23:24 to 1Ch_24:31 to be an authentic extract from “the Book of Origins,” which he refers to the early years of Solomon’s reign.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 32. The charge of the sons of Aaron] It was the priests' business to kill, flay, and dress, as well as to offer, the victims, but being few, they were obliged to employ the Levites to flay those animals. The Levites were, properly speaking, servants to the priests, and were employed about the more servile part of Divine worship.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

32. the tabernacle of the congregation] R.V. the tent of meeting.

the charge of the holy place] The limits within which this charge was confined are given Num_4:15. Not all Levites, but only the sons of Kohath had this particular charge.

the charge of the sons of Aaron] Cp. Num_18:1-7.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Brethren. Let them follow the directions of the high priests, who are of the same tribe. (Menochius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The charge of the sons of Aaron, i.e. what the priests should commit to their charge, or command them to do.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Keep the charge of the tabernacle holy place sons of Aaron. This concluding verse is equivalent to a quotation from Num_18:1-7; in the first verse of which passage Aaron and the priests generally are reminded both of their representative character and position, and of the solemn responsibility which rested on them.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Charge - What the priests should commit to their charge, or command them to do.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

They were in charge of

"The Levites were responsible for"

translationWords

tent of meeting

holy place

descend

Aaron

house of God

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mishmereth (“guard”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “guard” (mishmereth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Numbers 1:53, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “guard” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «וְשָׁמְר֞וּ» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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