NUMBERS CHAPTER 8 How the lamps are to be lighted, NUMBERS 8:1. God commands the Levites to be cleansed, NUMBERS 8:5; that they may serve with Aaron and his sons instead of the first-born, NUMBERS 8:16. Their age and service, NUMBERS 8:23. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Either, 1. On every side of the candlestick. So the _candlestick_ is here put for the bulk or shaft of the candlestick, as EXODUS 25:31,35, and the lamps, when they were lighted, were put into the branches of the candlestick, and take it out upon occasion. Thus the meaning is, that all the lam... [ Continue Reading ]
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BEATEN GOLD, not hollow, but solid and massive gold, beaten out of one piece, and not of several pieces joined or soldered together. See EXODUS 25:18,31 EXODUS 37:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
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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.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF PURIFYING, Heb. _of sin_, i.e. for the expiation of sin. This water was mixed with the ashes of a red heifer, NUMBERS 19:9, which therefore may seem to have been prescribed before, though it be mentioned after; such kind of transplacings of passages being frequent in Scripture. SHAVE ALL THEIR FL... [ Continue Reading ]
The same sacrifice which was offered for a sin-offering for the whole congregation, LE 4, because the Levites came in the stead of all the first-bern, which did in a manner represent the whole congregation.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; not all of them, which was impossible, but some in the name and stead, and by the appointment of all, to wit, either the first-born, or rather the princes or chiefs of each tribe, who used to transact things in the name of their tribes. PUT THEIR HANDS UPON THE LEVITES; where... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AN OFFERING, Heb. _for a wave-offering_. Of which see EXODUS 29:24. Not that Aaron did so wave them, which he could not do, but that he caused or commanded them to imitate that motion, and to wave themselves towards the several parts of the world; whereby they might signify their readiness to se... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE HEADS OF THE BULLOCKS; to signify, that they were offered by them and for them. See EXODUS 29:15,19 LE 1:4 3:2 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE AARON AND HIS SONS, i.e. put them into the power of Aaron and his sons, to employ them in holy ministrations; for so that phrase is sometimes used, as GENESIS 13:9, THE LAND IS BEFORE THEE, i.e. in thy power, to use or enjoy it. Or setting the Levites before them did signify the giving the Le... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE LEVITES GO IN, to wit, into the court, where they were to wait upon the priests at the altar of burnt-offering; and, at present, into the tabernacle, to take it down and set it up.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE GIVEN UNTO ME by the people's consent, as well as _taken_ (as it follows) by my choice and command. See NUMBERS 3:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE SERVICE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, i.e. to serve God in their stead and behalf, to do what otherwise they had been obliged to do in their own persons. IN THE TABERNACLE: how in it, SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 8:15". TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; not by offering sacrifices, which the... [ Continue Reading ]
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The Levites were purified by washing and sprinkling and sacrifices. See LEVITICUS 15:13 NUMBERS 19:11, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE AARON AND HIS SONS; in their presence, and by their direction and appointment.... [ Continue Reading ]
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FROM TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD. SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 4:3".... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Upon the difficult and cumbersome part of their work.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THEIR BRETHREN, by way of advice, and assistance in lesser and easier works.... [ Continue Reading ]