children. sons.
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 Purification of the Levites. This differed from that of the priests (Exodus 29, Leviticus 8), for the Levites ( a) were only sprinkled with wa...
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 peo...
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 conse...
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...
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 lea...
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 specia...
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 m...
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...
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 introdu...
The Consecration of the Levites. B. C. 1490....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 servic...
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 a...
EXPOSITION THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES ( Numbers 8:5-4 ). Numbers 8:5 The Lord spake unto Moses. At some time subsequent to...
The Purifying of the Levites
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. This was done in order to take from them any Levitical defilement and to set th...
2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Exodus 19:15 ; James 4:8
6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.