Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 8

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Numbers 8 . 1 , How the lamps are to be lighted; Numbers 8 . 5 , The consecration of the Levites; Numbers 8 . 23 , The age and time of their service.

Numbers 8:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 8:1 · BSB

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When this was spoken , says Bp. Patrick , is not certain. If Moses went into the tabernacle immediately after the princes had offered

  • Numbers 7:89 it may be thought he then spake these things unto him; but both this and what follows , concerning the Levites , seem rather to have been delivered after the order for giving them to the priests , and appointing their several charges
  • Numbers 3:1 and
  • Numbers 4:1 But some other things intervening , which depended upon what had been ordered respecting their camp , and that of the Israelites , Moses omits this until he had stated them , and some other matters which he had received from God. . See note on Numbers 7 . 11

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Numbers 8:2

“Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’”

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Numbers 8:4

This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

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Numbers 8:5

Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Numbers 8:6

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.

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Numbers 8:7

This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

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Heb. let them cause a razor to pass over , etc

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Numbers 8:8

Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

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Numbers 8:9

Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel.

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The words , kol âdath , which are rendered "the whole assembly ," often signify all the elders , or principal persons in the several tribes

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Numbers 8:10

You are to present the Levites before the LORD and have the Israelites lay their hands upon them.

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Numbers 8:11

Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.

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Heb. wave-offering , Not that they were actually waved , but they were presented to God , as the God of heaven , and the Lord of the whole earth , as the wave offerings were; and in calling them wave-offerings , it was intimated to them that they must move to and fro with readiness in the business of their profession

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Heb. they may be to execute , etc

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offer Heb. wave

Numbers 8:12

And the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

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Numbers 8:13

You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering.

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Wehainaphta othom tenoophath , literally , as in

  • Numbers 8:11 "and thou shalt wave them for a wave-offering;" manifestly in allusion to the ancient sacrificial rite of waving the sacrifices before the Lord; and it is probable , that some significant action , analogous to the waving of the sacrifice , was employed on this occasion; for the Levites were considered as an offering to the Lord , to whose service they were wholly dedicated. To this the apostle Paul manifestly alludes , when , in writing to the Romans , he says
  • Romans 12:1 "I beseech you , therefore , brethren , by the mercies of God , that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice , holy , acceptable unto God , which is your reasonable service."
  • Numbers 8:11
  • Numbers 8:21
  • Numbers 18:6
  • Romans 12:1
  • Romans 15:16

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Numbers 8:14

In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.

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Numbers 8:15

After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

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Numbers 8:16

For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.

Numbers 8:16 · BSB

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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

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Houbigant , on the authority of the Samaritan , reads , "instead of every first-born of the children of Israel , who openeth the womb."

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Numbers 8:17

For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.

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Numbers 8:18

But I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.

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Numbers 8:19

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”

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Numbers 8:20

So Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel did with the Levites everything that the LORD had commanded Moses they should do.

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Numbers 8:21

The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

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Numbers 8:22

After that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Numbers 8:24

“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

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In

  • Numbers 4:3 the Levites are appointed to the service of the tabernacle at the age of 30 years; and in
  • 1 Chronicles 23:24 they are ordered to commence their work at 20 years of age. In order to reconcile this apparent discrepancy , it is to be observed

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Heb. war the warfare of , etc

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Numbers 8:25

But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

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Heb. return from the warfare of the service

  • Numbers 4:23
  • 2 Timothy 4:7 The Levites , above fifty years of age , might superintend and assist their junior brethren in the ordinary offices , and give them and the people counsel and instruction; but they were exempted from carrying the tabernacle and from other laborious services. It is remarkable , that no law was made concerning the age at which the priests should begin to officiate , and though various blemishes disqualified them for the service of the sanctuary , yet they continued their ministrations till death , if capable. On the other hand , nothing is said concerning any bodily defects or blemishes disqualifying the Levites; but the time of their service is expressly settled. Their work was far more laborious than that of the priests; it is therefore likely that the priests would not begin very early to officiate; and the wisdom and experience of age would increase , rather than diminish , their fitness for the sacred duties of their office

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Numbers 8:26

After that, they may assist their brothers in fulfilling their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but they themselves are not to do the work. This is how you are to assign responsibilities to the Levites.”

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Echoes Acts 13:1-3 → Numbers 8:11-12
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Shaped Numbers 8:5–22
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