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NUMBERS 8
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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 dath,} 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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