Exo 24:5-6, 32:26-29, Num 3:12, 45, 8:16, 18:15, Mat 20:28, 1Ti 2:6 | TSK | STEP | young men. burnt offerings. peace offerings.

Nu 16:32-35,41; 1Co 10:8; Heb 2:2,3 Or, another reading of this verse is: And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord; because every man hath been against his son and against his brother, etc.

Moses.

Nu 25:11-13; De 13:6-11; 33:9,10; 1Sa 15:18-22; Pr 21:3

Joe 2:12-14; Zec 13:3; Mt 10:37

Consecrate. Heb. fill your hands.

Numbers 3:12

When God miraculously destroyed all the first-born of the Egyptians, (Ex 12:29,) he spared those of the Israelites; and, in commemoration of that event, he was pleased to appoint that all the first-born males "should be set apart unto himself." (Ex 13:12-16.) God is here pleased to relinquish this claim, and to appoint the whole tribe of Levi to attend his immediate service in their stead.

41,45; 8:16,18; 18:6

Numbers 3:45

12,40,41

Numbers 8:16

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."

3:12,45