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keep.32; 8:26; 31:30; 1Ch 23:28-32; 26:20,22,26to 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 52:11Numbers 3:25
the charge.From this and the next chapter, we see the very severe labour which the Levites were to perform, while the journeyings of the Israelites lasted. When we consider, that there was not less than 14 tons 266 lbs. of metal employed in the tabernacle, (see note on Ex 38:24,) besides the immense weight of the skins, hangings, cords, boards, and posts, we shall find it was no easy matter to transport this moveable temple from place to place. The Gershonites, who were 7,500 in number had to carry the tent, coverings, vail, hangings of the court, cords, etc. (ver. 25, 26); the Kohathites, who were 8,600, the ark, table, candlestick, altars, and instruments of the sanctuary (ver. 31); and the Merarites, who were 6,200, the boards, bars, sockets, and all matters connected with these belonging to the tabernacle, with the pillars of the court, their sockets, pins, and cords (ver. 36, 37). 7; 4:24-28; 7:7; 10:17; 1Ch 9:14-33; 23:32; 26:21,222Ch 31:2,11-18; Ezr 8:28-30; Mr 13:34; Ro 12:6-8; Col 4:171Ti 1:18the tabernacle and.Ex 25:9; 26:1-14; 36:8-19; 40:19and the hanging.Ex 26:36,37; 36:37,38; 40:28Numbers 3:31
the ark.4:4-16; Ex 25:10-40; 31:1-35:29; 37:1-24; 39:33-42; 40:2-16,30the altars.Ex 27:1-8; 30:1-10; 37:25-29; 38:1-7and the hanging.Ex 26:31-33; 36:35,36Numbers 3:36-39
under the custody and charge. Heb. the office of the charge.the boards. 4:29-33; 7:8; Ex 26:15-29,32,37; 27:9-19; 35:11,18; 36:20-34,36Ex 38:17-20; 39:33 37 toward.23,29,35; 1:53; 2:3keeping.10; 18:1-5; 1Ch 6:48,49for the charge.7,8,10 and Aaron.The word [w'hrn,] {weäharon,} and "Aaron," has a point over each of its letters, probably designed as a mark of spuriousness. The word is wanting in the Samaritan, Syriac, and Coptic, and also in eight of Dr. Kennicott's and in four of De Rossi's MSS. Moses alone, as Houbigant observes, was commanded to number the Levites, (ver. 5, 11, 40, 44, 51:) for as the money with which the first-born were redeemed was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, (ver. 48,) it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself. twenty and two thousand. This total does not agree with the particulars; for the Gershonites were 7,500, the Kohathites 8,600, and the Merarites 6,200, which make a total of 22,300. Several methods of solving this difficulty have been proposed by learned men. Houbigant supposes there is an error in the enumeration of the Kohathites in ver. 28; the numeral {shesh,} "six," being written instead of {shalosh,} "three," before "hundred." Dr. Kennicott's mode of reconciling the discrepancy, however, is the most simple. He supposes that an error has crept into the number of the Gershonites in ver. 22, where instead of 7,500 we should read 7,200, as [k,] {caph} final, which stands for 500, might have been easily mistaken for [r,] resh, 200. (Dr. Kennicott on the Hebrew Text, vol. II. p. 212.) Either of these modes will equally reconcile the difference. 4:47,48; 26:62; Mt 7:14Numbers 18:1-5
1 The charge of the priests and Levites.8 The priests' portion.21 The Levites' portion.25 The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion. Aaron, Thou.17:3,7,13; Heb 4:15shall bear.To counterbalance the high honour conferred on Aaron and his family, and to allay the fears and abate the envy of the people, it is here declared, that the priest must bear the blame of everything which was not properly conducted in the sanctuary. 22; 14:34; Ex 28:38; Le 22:9; Isa 53:6,11; Eze 3:18,19Ac 20:26,27; Heb 13:17; 1Pe 2:24 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 29:34minister.3:6-9; 8:19,22but 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; 16:40neither.4:15 a stranger.1:51; 3:10; 1Sa 6:19; 2Sa 6:6,7 And ye.8:2; Ex 27:21; 30:7-10; Le 24:3; 1Ch 9:19,23,33; 24:5; 1Ti 1:181Ti 3:15; 5:21; 6:20no wrath.8:19; 16:46; Jer 23:15; Zec 10:3Numbers 18:23
do the service.3:7among.201 Chronicles 9:27-29
the charge.23:32; Ro 12:7the opening.1Sa 3:15; Mal 1:10 the charge.26:22-26; Nu 23:25-27; Ezr 8:25-30; Ne 12:44; 13:4,5bring them in and out. Heb. bring them in by tale, and carrythem out. instruments. or, vessels. the oil.Ex 27:20the frankincense.Ex 30:23-381 Chronicles 23:32
keep.9:27; Nu 1:53; 1Ki 8:4the charge of the sons.Nu 3:6-9,381 Chronicles 26:20-27
treasures.22; 9:26-30; 22:3,4,14-16; 28:12-19; 29:2-8; 1Ki 14:26; 15:18Mal 3:10dedicated things. Heb. holy things.26-28; 18:11; 1Ki 7:51; 2Ch 31:11,12 Laadan.6:17Libni.23:7 Jehieli.Jehieli, [Yechîy'êlîy ,] is the same as Jehiel, [Yechav'êl ,] with the addition of [Yôwd,] {yood.} 23:8; 29:8Jehiel. over the treasures.20; Ne 10:38 Amramites.23:12; Nu 3:19,27 Shebuel.The difference between [Shûwbâ'êl ,] Shubael, and [Shêbûw'êl ,] Shebuel, simply arises from the elision of [Vâv,] {wav} and a change of vowels. 23:15,16; 24:20Shubael. Eliezer.23:15; Ex 18:4Rehabiah.23:17Shelomith.23:18 over all the treasures.18:11; 22:14; 29:2-9; Nu 31:30-52 Out.Jos 6:19spoils won in battles. Heb. battles and spoils. tomaintain. 2Ki 12:14; Ne 10:32-34
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