Numbers 4:4

4:4 This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things. ¹ 

Numbers 5:9-10

5:9 Every offering ²  of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his. 5:10 Every man’s holy things ³  will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

Numbers 28:18

28:18 And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work ⁴  on it.

Numbers 28:25

28:25 On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

Numbers 29:35

29:35 “‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

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¹ tn The Hebrew text simply has “the holy of holies,” or “the holy of the holy things” (קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים, qodesh haqqodashim). The context indicates that this refers to all the sacred furnishings.

² tn The Hebrew word תְּרוּמָה (tÿrumah) seems to be a general word for any offering that goes to the priests (see J. Milgrom, Studies in Cultic Theology and Terminology [SJLA 36], 159-72).

³ sn The “holy gifts” are described with the root of קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh) to convey that they were separate. Such things had been taken out of the ordinary and normal activities of life.

⁴ tn Heb “any work [of] service”; this means any occupational work, that is, the ordinary service.