Num 3:6-9, 8:6-14, 18:2-6, Deu 10:8 | TSK | STEP | The word {hakraiv,} here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's.

Numbers 3:6-9

The word {hakraiv,} here rendered bring near, is properly a sacrificial word, and signifies the presenting of a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. As an offering, the tribe of Levi was entirely given up to the service of the sanctuary, to be no longer their own, but the Lord's.

1:49-53; 2:17,33; 8:6-15,22-26; 16:9-11; 18:2-6; Ex 32:26-29

De 33:8,9; Mal 2:4

keep.

32; 8:26; 31:30; 1Ch 23:28-32; 26:20,22,26

to do the.

1:50; 8:11,15,24-26

4:15,28,33; 10:17,21; 1Ch 26:20-28; Ezr 8:24-30; Isa 52:11

8:19; 18:6,7; Eph 4:8,11

Numbers 8:6-14

cleanse them.

Ex 19:15; 2Co 7:1; Jas 4:8

Sprinkle.

Le 8:6; 14:7; Isa 52:15; Eze 36:25; Heb 9:10

water.

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.

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 4:8; 1Pe 3:21; Re 7:14

a young.

Ex 29:1,3; Le 1:3; 8:2

his meat.

15:8,9; Le 2:1

another.

Le 4:3,14; 16:3; Isa 53:10; Ro 8:3; 2Co 5:21

thou shalt bring.

Ex 29:4-37; 40:12

shalt gather the whole.The words, {kol âdath,} which are rendered "the whole assembly," often signify all the elders, or principal persons in the several tribes. (ch. 15:4; 25:7; 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

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

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.

6:20; Ex 29:24; Le 7:30; 8:27,29

they may execute. Heb. they may be to execute, etc.

1:49-53; 3:5-43

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

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. 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

separate.

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

Numbers 18:2-6

joined unto thee.There is a fine paronomasia in the original. Levi is desired from {lawah,} to join, couple, associate; hence Moses says, the Levites {yillawoo,} "shall be joined," or associated, with the priests: they shall conjointly perform the sacred office, but the priests shall be principal, the Levites their associates or assistants.

4; Ge 29:34

minister.

3:6-9; 8:19,22

but thou.

3:10-13; 4:15; 16:40; 17:7; 1Ch 16:39,40; 2Ch 30:16; Eze 44:15

only they.

3:25,31,36; 4:19,20; 16:40

neither.

4:15

a stranger.

1:51; 3:10; 1Sa 6:19; 2Sa 6:6,7

And ye.