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Numbers 8:1 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.
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Numbers 8:2 open_in_new
the. the face of the.
candlestick. light-holder (as in Genesis 1:14), or lampstand. Compare Exodus 25:31-39; Exodus 37:17-24.
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Numbers 8:3 open_in_new
as. according as.
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Numbers 8:4 open_in_new
unto. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Onkelos Manuscript, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "and unto".
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Numbers 8:6 open_in_new
children. sons.
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Numbers 8:7 open_in_new
water of purifying. sin water: i.e., water prepared as in Numbers 19.
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Numbers 8:8 open_in_new
meat offering. See App-43.
sin offering. See App-43.
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Numbers 8:9 open_in_new
tabernacle of the congregation. tent of meeting. App-40.
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Numbers 8:11 open_in_new
offer. Hebrew wave. See note on Exodus 29:27.
offering. Hebrew wave offering. See App-43.
execute the service. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). Hebrew "serve the service". perform the solemn service.
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Numbers 8:12 open_in_new
the Levites. Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6), the verse beginning and ending with the same word.
offer. prepare. Hebrew. 'asah. App-43.
atonement. See note on Exodus 29:33.
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Numbers 8:14 open_in_new
Mine. Compare Numbers 3:45.
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Numbers 8:15 open_in_new
offer them for an offering. wave them for. wave offering. See Exodus 29:27.
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Numbers 8:23 open_in_new
as. according as.
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Numbers 8:24 open_in_new
twenty and five years old. This was the commencement of. five years' probation. The age, thirty, was the age of their numbering. See note on Numbers 4:3.
to wait, &c. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), as in verses: Numbers 8:11; Numbers 8:15; Numbers 8:19. Literally war the warfare.
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Numbers 8:26 open_in_new
from the age, &c. Observe the gracious care of Jehovah.