Num 3:6 | KingComments | STEP | The Levites are given as a tribe to Aaron and his sons. They are subject to Aaron and act on the priest’s instructions. The Levite helps with priestly service. Every Levite’s service in the church aims to make the members of the church better and better priests through this service. A better priest is more to the honor of God. They are also given to the whole congregation of Israel. Every believer is as a Levite, as a servant, accountable only to the Lord ( ). The performance of his task is a matter only between the Lord and him. It is not the brothers and sisters who determine his service. If the matter is sound, they will agree to it. Only in the case of discipline, when sin becomes manifest in the servant, the church must deal with it. The gifts are given to the church and find their realization in the midst of the church. That is why the servant has to do with the church. He does not act above or separate from the church. The church is entitled to this gift. He is a servant, so he is not in a higher place, but in the lowest place. He is subject to the Lord and works amidst the church. and find their counterpart for us in the words of the Lord Jesus to His Father: “They were Yours and You gave them to Me” ( ), and to the Jews: “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” ( ). The “layman” ( ) is someone who does not belong to Aaron’s family (cf. ). In Numbers 1 it concerns someone who is not a Levite ( ). Nadab and Abihu were qualified, but still killed because they approached in their own way.

‏ Numbers 3:6

The Levites Are a Gift to the Priests

The Levites are given as a tribe to Aaron and his sons. They are subject to Aaron and act on the priest’s instructions. The Levite helps with priestly service. Every Levite’s service in the church aims to make the members of the church better and better priests through this service. A better priest is more to the honor of God.

They are also given to the whole congregation of Israel. Every believer is as a Levite, as a servant, accountable only to the Lord (Rom 14:4). The performance of his task is a matter only between the Lord and him. It is not the brothers and sisters who determine his service. If the matter is sound, they will agree to it. Only in the case of discipline, when sin becomes manifest in the servant, the church must deal with it.

The gifts are given to the church and find their realization in the midst of the church. That is why the servant has to do with the church. He does not act above or separate from the church. The church is entitled to this gift. He is a servant, so he is not in a higher place, but in the lowest place. He is subject to the Lord and works amidst the church.

Num 3:6 and Num 3:9 find their counterpart for us in the words of the Lord Jesus to His Father: “They were Yours and You gave them to Me” (Jn 17:6), and to the Jews: “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (Jn 6:37).

The “layman” (Num 3:10) is someone who does not belong to Aaron’s family (cf. Num 3:38b). In Numbers 1 it concerns someone who is not a Levite (Num 1:51). Nadab and Abihu were qualified, but still killed because they approached in their own way.