Scripture Musings: What's with the Kohathites?

[burningbible]

 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites. Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service: And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But unto the sons of Kohath he gave

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[bible_banger]

I keep thinking of Jesus bearing the cross up to Calvary. The reverse of this. Holy Hands bearing a very human cross. And then, another man bore Jesus's cross. I've always wondered why Jesus let him do that. Just as an expression of His utter humanity? Or symbolic of what we are to do now--take up His Cross, whatever that is for us, and follow Him. Why did God let the most precious thing, the Ark, be carried by humans? Why did He send the Most Precious Thing to be cared for by humans?

...I guess I just gave you a bunch of questions, not any possible answers. Your questions are too hard! Do you have a muse to add? Or do you just find it a*musing* that no one can answer this?

[burningbible]

That's a helpful analogy. But in Numbers, it's not that it's being carried by humans, it's that it's *not* being carried by animals. The focus is that animals aren't good enough, not that people aren't.