TSK - NUMBERS 8

  1  How the lamps are to be lighted.
 5  The consecration of the Levites.
23  The age and time of their service.

  When this was spoken, says Bp. Patrick, is not certain.  If
  Moses went into the tabernacle immediately after the princes
  had offered, (ch. 89 7:89,) it may be thought he then spake
  these things unto him; but both this and what follows,
  concerning the Levites, seem rather to have been delivered
  after the order for giving them to the priests, and
  appointing their several charges.  (ch. 3; 4.)  But some
  other things intervening, which depended upon what had been
  ordered respecting their camp, and that of the Israelites,
  Moses omits this until he had stated them, and some other
  matters which he had received from God.  (See ch. 11 7:11.)


VERSE 1
   * :1

VERSE 2
    * Ex 25:37; 37:18,19,23; 40:25 Le 24:1,2 Ps 105 119:105,130 Isa 8:20
   * Mt 5:14 Joh 1:9 2Pe 1:19 Re 1:12,20; 2:1; 4:5


VERSE 3 
 - as the Lord commanded.
   * Ps 40:7,8 Joh 8:28,29 Heb 3:1-6


VERSE 4 
 - this work.
   * Ex 25:31-39; 37:17-24
- beaten work.
   * Ex 25:18; 37:7,17,22
- the pattern.
   * Ex 25:9,40 1Ch 28:11-19 Heb 8:5; 9:23

VERSE 5


VERSE 6 
 - cleanse them.
   * Ex 19:15 2Co 7:1 Jas 8 4:8


VERSE 7 
 - Sprinkle.
   * Le 8:6; 14:7 Isa 52:15 Eze 36:25 Heb 9:10
- water.
   * Nu 19:9,10,13,17-19 Ps 51:7 Heb 9:13
- let them shave.  Heb. let them cause a razor to pass over,
  etc.
   * Le 14:8,9
- wash their.
   * Nu 19:7,8,10,19; 31:20 Ge 35:2 Ex 19:10 Le 15:6,10,11,27; 16:28
   * Ps 51:2 Jer 4:14 Mt 23:25,26 Jas 8 4:8 1Pe 3:21 Re 7:14


VERSE 8 
 - a young.
   * Ex 29:1,3 Le 1:3; 8:2
- his meat.
   * Nu 15:8,9 Le 2:1
- another.
   * Le 4:3,14; 16:3 Isa 53:10 Ro 8:3 2Co 5:21


VERSE 9 
 - thou shalt bring.
   * Ex 29:4-37; 40:12
- shalt gather the whole.
  The words, {kol ƒdath,} which are rendered "the whole
  assembly," often signify all the elders, or principal persons
  in the several tribes.  (ch. 4 15:4; 7 25:7; 12 35:12.)  And they
  cannot well have any other sense here; for it would be
  impossible for all the children of Israel to put their hands
  on the Levites, as stated in the next verse.

   * Le 8:3

VERSE 10
    * Nu 3:45 Le 1:4 Ac 6:6; 13:2,3 1Ti 4:14; 5:22


VERSE 11 
 - offer.  Heb. wave.  offering.  Heb. wave-offering.
  Not that they were actually waved, but they were presented to
  God, as the God of heaven, and the Lord of the whole earth,
  as the wave offerings were; and in calling them
  wave-offerings, it was intimated to them that they must move
  to and fro with readiness in the business of their
  profession.

   * Nu 6:20 Ex 29:24 Le 7:30; 8:27,29
- they may execute.  Heb. they may be to execute, etc.
   * Nu 1:49-53; 3:5-43


VERSE 12 
 - Levites.
   * Ex 29:10 Le 1:4; 8:14; 16:21
- the one.
   * :8; 6:14,16 Le 5:7,9,10; 8:14,18; 9:7; 14:19,20,22 Heb 10:4-10
- atonement.
   * Le 1:4; 4:20,35; 8:34; 16:6,11,16-19 Heb 9:22


VERSE 13 
 - offer them.
  {Wehainaphta othom tenoophath,} literlly, as in ver. 11, "and
  thou shalt wave them for a wave-offering;" manifestly in
  allusion to the ancient sacrificial rite of waving the
  sacrifices before the Lord; and it is probable, that some
  significant action, analogous to the waving of the sacrifice,
  was employed on this occasion; for the Levites were
  considered as an offering to the Lord, to whose service they
  were wholly dedicated.  To this the apostle Paul manifestly
  alludes, when, in writing to the Romans, he says, (ch. 1 12:1,)
  "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
  that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
  acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

   * :11,21; 18:6 Ro 12:1; 15:16


VERSE 14 
 - separate.
   * Nu 6:2 De 10:8 Ro 1:1 Ga 1:15 Heb 7:26
- and the Levites.
   * :17; 3:45; 16:9,10; 18:6 Mal 3:17


VERSE 15 
 - go in.
   * :11; 3:23-37; 4:3-32 1Ch 23:1-32; 25:1-32 26:32
- and offer.  See on ver.
   * :11,13; 3:12


VERSE 16 
 - wholly given.
  {Nethunim, nethunim,} "given; given;" The word being
  repeated, "because," says Bp.  Patrick, "the children of
  Israel had devoted them to him, by laying their hands upon
  them, (ver. 10,) and Aaron had waved them as a wave-offering
  to the Lord."  (ver. 11.)

- instead of such.
  Houbigant, on the authority of the Samaritan, reads, "instead
  of every first-born of the children of Israel, who openeth
  the womb."

   * Nu 3:12,45


VERSE 17 
 - all the.
   * Nu 3:13 Ex 13:2,12-15 Lu 2:23
- on the day.
   * Ex 12:29 Ps 78:51; 105:36; 135:8 Heb 11:28
- I sanctified.
   * Ex 13:14,15; 29:44 Le 27:14,15,26 Eze 20:12 Joh 10:36; 17:19
   * Heb 10:29 Jas 1:18


VERSE 18 
 - I have taken.
   * Nu 16:8,9 Mt 1:23-25 Lu 2:23


VERSE 19 
 - I have given.
   * Nu 3:6-9; 18:2-6 1Ch 23:28-32 Eze 44:11-14
- a gift.  Heb. given.  that there.
   * Nu 1:53; 16:46; 18:5 1Sa 6:19 2Ch 26:16-20

VERSE 20


VERSE 21 
 - were purified.  See on ver.
   * :7; 19:12,19
- offered.  See on ver.
   * :11-13,15; 3:12
- Aaron made.
   * :12


VERSE 22 
 - after that.
   * :15 2Ch 30:15-17,27; 31:2; 35:8-15
- as the Lord.
   * :5-26

VERSE 23


VERSE 24 
 - from twenty.
  In ch. 3 4:3, the Levites are appointed to the service of the
  tabernacle at the age of 30 years; and in 1 Ch 24 23:24, they
  are ordered to commence their work at 20 years of age.  In
  order to reconcile this apparent discrepancy, it is to be
  observed, 1.  At the time of which Moses speaks in ch. 3 4:3,
  the Levitical service was exceedingly severe, and
  consequently required full grown, robust men, to perform it;
  the age of 30 was therefore appointed as the period for
  commencing this service, the weightier part of which was
  probably there intended.  2.  In this place God seems to
  speak of the service in a general way:  hence the age of 25
  is fixed.  3.  In David's time, and afterwards, in the fixed
  tabernacle and temple, the laboriousness of the service no
  longer existed, and hence 20 years was the age appointed.

   * Nu 4:3,23 1Ch 23:3,24-27; 28:12,13
- wait upon.  Heb. war the warfare of, etc.
   * 1Co 9:7 2Co 10:4 1Ti 1:18; 6:12 2Ti 2:3-5


VERSE 25 
 - cease waiting upon the service thereof.  Heb. return from the
  warfare of the service.
   * Nu 4:23 2Ti 4:7
  The Levites, above fifty years of age, might superintend and
  assist their junior brethren in the ordinary offices, and
  give them and the people counsel and instruction; but they
  were exempted from carrying the tabernacle and from other
  laborious services.  It is remarkable, that no law was made
  concerning the age at which the priests should begin to
  officiate, and though various blemishes disqualified them for
  the service of the sanctuary, yet they continued their
  ministrations till death, if capable.  On the other hand,
  nothing is said concerning any bodily defects or blemishes
  disqualifying the Levites; but the time of their service is
  expressly settled.  Their work was far more laborious than
  that of the priests; it is therefore likely that the priests
  would not begin very early to officiate; and the wisdom and
  experience of age would increase, rather than diminish, their
  fitness for the sacred duties of their office.


VERSE 26 
 - to keep.
   * Nu 1:53; 3:32; 18:4; 31:30 1Ch 23:32; 26:20-29 Eze 44:8,11
- and shall.
   * 1Ti 4:15



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