Numbers 8:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD. ”

Numbers 8:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levites could only undertake their duties Numbers 3 ; Numbers 4 after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-born Numbers 3:44-51 . The distinction between the “consecration” of...
Numbers 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Purification of the Levites. This differed from that of the priests (Exodus 29, Leviticus 8), for the Levites ( a) were only sprinkled with water instead of being washed altogether and anointe...
Numbers 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
Numbers 8:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And thou shalt set the Levites— Houbigant renders this verse, Then thou shalt bring the Levites to Aaron and to his sons, and shalt apply them to [the service of] the Lord: others would have it...
Numbers 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD. Aaron shall offer the Levites ... for an offering , х...
Numbers 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Lighting of the Golden Lamps. The Consecration of the Levites 1-4. See on Exodus 25:31-40 ; Exodus 27:20 ; Exodus 27:21 . 5-26. This is the fulfilment of the injunetion in Numbers 3:5...
Numbers 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And offer them for an offering. — Literally, and wave them as a wave- offering, as in Numbers 8:11 . So also in Numbers 8:15 .
Numbers 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11-13 , THE FIRST-BORN.
Numbers 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Lights in God's House; Clean Workmen Numbers 8:1-13 It is strange to come on this paragraph about the candlestick amid the preparations for leaving Sinai. But typically it is appropriate, becau...
Numbers 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having recorded the acts of the princes in offering their substance, the record proceeded to deal with the setting apart of the Levites as the special order of men whose persons and time were to be g...
Numbers 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Levites were before appointed to this service, and here is the form of their ordination. See Numbers 3:6 , etc. But let the Reader remark with me, the gospel feature strongly pointed out. The Le...
Numbers 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons ,.... After atonement was made for them, as Aben Ezra observes; then they were presented to Aaron and his sons, to whom they were giv...
Numbers 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:12
Numbers 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LAMPS (vs.1-4) It may seem strange that this one subject of the lampstand and the arranging of the lamps should be introduced in this place. But the previous Chapter s have...
Numbers 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Consecration of the Levites. B. C. 1490. 5 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying...
Numbers 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Before Aaron and his sons, i.e. put them into the power of Aaron and his sons, to employ them in holy ministrations; for so that phrase is sometimes used, as Genesis 13:9 , the land is before t...
Numbers 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Threefold Offering of the Levites As A Wave-offering to Yahweh ( Numbers 8:10-15 ). Numbers 8:10-11 “ And you shall present the Levites before Yahweh. And the children of Israel shall la...
Numbers 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Critical and Explanatory Notes Numbers 8:1-4 . (Compare Exodus 25:31-40 ; Exodus 27:20-21 ; Exodus 37:17-24 ; Exodus 40:24-25 ). Here we have the command to actually light the lamps, and the...
Numbers 8:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Numbers 8:5-6 . And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. These men were to be the servants of God; they are the type of God's e...
Numbers 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:7 . Water of purifying, or the water of sin, made with the ashes of the red heifer. Numbers 19:9 . Numbers 8:19 . To do the service. The great and awful work of expiation belongs...
Numbers 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES ( Numbers 8:5-4 ). Numbers 8:5 The Lord spake unto Moses. At some time subsequent to the command given in Numbers 3:6-4 , and no doub...
Numbers 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Purifying of the Levites
Numbers 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 18:6 ; Numbers 8:11 ; Numbers 8:21 ; Romans 12:1 ; Romans 15:16
Numbers 8:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Set the Levites before Aaron — Give the Levites to them, or to their service. Unto the Lord — For to him they were first properly offered, and by him given to the priests in order to his service.

Numbers 8:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 8:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Numbers 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 8:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes