Numbers 8:1-4
THE LIGHTING OF THE SANCTUARY LAMPS... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIGHTING OF THE SANCTUARY LAMPS... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, apparently the chief daily function of the high priest in those days, and a very important part of the officiating priest's work at a later period, THE SEVEN LAMPS SHALL GIVE LIGHT OVER AGAINST THE CANDLESTICK. Cf Exodus 25:37. The lam... [ Continue Reading ]
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, so that they shone forward or toward the east from the veil which screened the Most Holy Place, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, of fine chased work, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work, Exodus 25:31; according unto the pattern which the Lord had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick. Stress is again laid upon the fact that the candlestick c... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PURIFYING OF THE LEVITES... [ Continue Reading ]
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 them apart as a body of servants for the ministry of the Tabernacle.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thus shalt thou do unto them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, probably water mingled with the ashes of the sin-offering, Leviticus 3:12, the act being symbolical of the washing from sins and impurities of every kind, AND LET THEM SHAVE ALL THEIR FLESH, pass over their enti... [ Continue Reading ]
Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, for so it was prescribed. Leviticus 2:1; AND ANOTHER YOUNG BULLOCK SHALT THOU TAKE FOR A SIN-OFFERING. Cf Leviticus 4.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, in the eastern part of the court, facing the altar of burnt offering; AND THOU SHALL GATHER THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOGETHER, especially in its chief representatives;... [ Continue Reading ]
and thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord, formally present them before the face of Jehovah by having them line up before the altar of burnt offering; AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, through their representatives, SHALL PUT THEIR HANDS UPON THE LEVITES, thus confessing the obligation of all the p... [ Continue Reading ]
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord, in a gesture of waving, whereby they were transferred from the position of ordinary members of the congregation to that of God's servants in a peculiar sense, FOR AN OFFERING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, for that is the meaning the ceremony intended t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks, in the usual gesture conveying their own guilt to the sacrificial animals; AND THOU SHALL OFFER THE ONE FOR A SIN-OFFERING AND THE OTHER FOR A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE LEVITES, and thus to bring t... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, for it was as their assistants that they were mainly to serve, AND OFFER THEM FOR AN OFFERING UNTO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.... [ Continue Reading ]
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, in performing their ministrations in the court and in transporting the Sanctuary from one station to the next; AND THOU SHALT CLEANSE THEM, AND OFFER THEM FOR AN OFFERING. These verses are a further expli... [ Continue Reading ]
For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel, offered to Jehovah by the entire people as their representatives; INSTEAD OF SUCH AS OPEN EVERY WOMB, EVEN INSTEAD OF THE FIRST-BORN OF ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, HAVE I TAKEN THEM UNTO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
For all the first-born of the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast, the Lord having an exclusive claim upon them for His service. ON THE DAY THAT I SMOTE EVERY FIRST-BORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT I SANCTIFIED THEM FOR MYSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I have taken the Levites for, in the place or stead of, ALL THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel to do the service of the children of Israel, that which should have been performed by them in their first-born, IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, AND TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so did the children of Israel unto them.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.... [ Continue Reading ]
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the Tabernacle of the Congregation before Aaron and before his sons, under whose immediate direction they worked; AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED MOSES CONCERNING THE LEVITES, SO DID THEY UNTO THEM. While there is no hierarchy by divine appointment... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AGE AT WHICH THE LEVITES SERVED... [ Continue Reading ]
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites, this is the special regulation fixing the age limit of the Levites: FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD THEY SHALL GO IN TO WAIT UPON THE SERVICE OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, be engaged in the ministry connected with the Lord's Sanctuary;... [ Continue Reading ]
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof and shall serve no more, not be obliged to do the heavy work connected with the transport of the Tabernacle;... [ Continue Reading ]
but shall minister with their brethren in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to keep the charge, have the supervision over the furniture and the vessels of the Sanctuary, AND SHALL DO NO SERVICE. THUS SHALT THOU DO UNTO THE LEVITES TOUCHING THEIR CHARGE, with regard to all the services which they w... [ Continue Reading ]