“ Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. ”
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...
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...
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6. Take the Levites from among. To take them from among the children of Israel, is equivalent to subtracting them from the number of the people, that they might not be included in the genera...
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. Take the Levites ... and cleanse them. This passage describes the consecration of the Levites. Although the tribe was to...
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...
This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11-13 , THE FIRST-BORN.
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...
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...
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...
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel ,.... Among whom they were mixed, as were all the tribes mixed together as Aben Ezra says, before they took their journey from Mount Sinai; however...
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...
The Consecration of the Levites. B. C. 1490. 5 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying...
Or, wash or purify them, which was also done with the priests and others when they were to approach to God and his service. See Exodus 19:10,14 Le 14:9 .
The Dedication of the Levites ( Numbers 8:5-26 ). The voice has spoken to Moses, Yahweh's chosen; the light, lit by Aaron and his sons, Yahweh's chosen, shines on the bread that symbolises Yahweh...
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 8:5-6 . 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 8:7 . 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...
Take the Levites and cleanse them. The Divine principle of cleansing Here we have, in type, the only Divine principle of cleansing. It is the application of death to nature and all its habits....
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...
The Purifying of the Levites
2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Exodus 19:15 ; James 4:8