Numbers 18:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֗ם אֵ֚ת מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ וְאֵ֖ת מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה ע֛וֹד קֶ֖צֶף עַל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

And-ûšmarttem ʾēt mišmeret the-qōdeš and-ʾēt mišmeret the-mizbēaḥ and-not-yihyeh again qeṣep upon-sons-of Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *ûšmarttem*: waw consecutive + qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you shall keep/guard
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *mišmeret*: feminine singular construct - duty/charge/obligation of
• *qōdeš*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the holy place/sanctuary
• *mizbēaḥ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the altar
• *yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - there shall be
• *qeṣep*: masculine singular noun - wrath/anger
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *qōdeš*: holy place/sanctuary/holiness
• *qeṣep*: wrath/anger/indignation/divine punishment

Referenced Verses

• Exod 27:21 : 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
• Lev 24:3 : 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
• Num 16:46 : 46 Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
• 1 Chr 9:19 : 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.
• 1 Chr 9:23 : 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
• 1 Chr 9:33 : 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the chambers [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.
• 1 Chr 24:5 : 5 Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
• Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
• Zech 10:3 : 3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, And will make them as his horse in the battle that he is proud of.
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
• Num 8:2 : 2 "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'"
• Num 8:19 : 19 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 Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."
• Exod 30:7-9 : 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. 9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it. 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
• Lev 10:6 : 6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.