Numbers 3:8

All the instruments - The tabernacle itself and all its contents: see all described, Numbers 3:25 , Numbers 3:26 , Numbers 3:31 , Numbers 3:36 , Numbers 3:37 . The Levites were to perform the most common and laborious offices. It was their business to take down, put up, and carry the tabernacle and its utensils; for it was the object of their peculiar care. In a word, they were the servants of the priests.