Numbers 4-6 - Yahweh bless you, and keep you

Duties of the Kohathites

Num 4:4 LSB - [4] "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, [concerning] the most holy things.

Num 4:19-20 LSB - [19] "But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy [objects]: Aaron and his sons shall go in and set each of them to his service and to his load; [20] but they shall not go in to see the holy [objects] even for a moment, or they will die."

Duties of the Gershonites

Num 4:24 LSB - [24] "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:

Duties of the Merarites

Num 4:31-32 LSB - [31] "Now this is the responsibility of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its bases, [32] and the pillars around the court and their bases and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign [each man] by name the items of the responsibility of his load.

Num 4:49 LSB - [49] According to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus [these were] his numbered men, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

Num 5:2 LSB - [2] "Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a [dead] person.

Restitution for Sins

Num 5:6-7 LSB - [6] "Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty, [7] then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give [it] to him whom he has wronged.

The Statutes of Jealousy

Num 5:29-30 LSB - [29] 'This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, [being] under [the authority of] her husband, goes astray and defiles herself, [30] or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

The Nazirite Vow

Num 6:2-3 LSB - [2] "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh, [3] he shall abstain as a Nazirite from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

Luk 1:15 LSB - [15] "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and HE WILL NOT DRINK ANY WINE OR STRONG DRINK, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb.

 

Yahweh Blesses the Sons of Israel
Num 6:22-27 LSB - 

[22] Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 

[23] "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: 

[24] Yahweh bless you, and keep you; 

[25] Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; 

[26] Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.' 

[27] "So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I [then] will bless them."

THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU

Words & Mu­sic: Pe­ter C. Lut­kin (1858–1931)

The Lord bless you and keep you

The Lord lift His coun­ten­ance upon you,

And give you peace, and give you peace;

The Lord make His face to shine up­on you,

And be gra­cious, and be gra­cious;

The Lord be gra­cious, gra­cious un­to you.