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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Numbers 8:13

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 Levites to them, or to their service. For an offering unto to the Lord; for to him they were first properly offered, and by him given to the priests in order to his service.

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See also Numbers 8:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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. The distinction between the “consecration” of the pr

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. THE CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The lighting of the candlestick (Numbers 8:1)_ 2. The consecration of the Levites (Numbers 8:5) 3. The charge to the Levites repeated (Numbers 8:2...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PURIFICATION OF THE LEVITES. This differed from that of the priests (Exodus 29, Leviticus 8), for the Levites (_a)_ were only sprinkled with water instead of being washed altogether and anointed w...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Levites_ Numbers 8:5. Their purification and dedication, Numbers 8:23. The age of service. The passage is an expansion of Numbers 3:5-13, with the addition of the rite of purification. The Levit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Levites are formally handed over to the priests as their ministers....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THOU SHALT SET THE LEVITES— Houbigant renders this verse, _Then thou shalt bring the Levites to Aaron and to his sons, and shalt apply them to_ [the service of] _the Lord:_ others would have it, _...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES FOR SERVICE vv. 5-22 TEXT Numbers 8:5. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6. Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7. And thus shalt...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND AARON SHALL OFFER THE LEVITES BEFORE THE LORD FOR AN OFFERING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY MAY EXECUTE THE SERVICE OF THE LORD._ AARON SHALL OFFER THE LEVITES ... FOR AN OFFERING, х_ TªNU...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LIGHTING OF THE GOLDEN LAMPS. THE CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES 1-4. See on Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 27:21. 5-26. This is the fulfilment of the injunetion in...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 AARON SETS UP THE LAMPS – NUMBERS 8:1-4 V1 The *LORD said to Moses, V2 ‘Speak to Aaron. Give these instr

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND OFFER THEM FOR AN OFFERING. — Literally, _and wave them as a wave- offering,_ as in Numbers 8:11. So also in Numbers 8:15....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַֽעֲמַדְתָּ֙ אֶת ־הַ לְוִיִּ֔ם לִ פְנֵ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LIGHTS IN GOD'S HOUSE; CLEAN WORKMEN Numbers 8:1 It is strange to come on this paragraph about the candlestick amid the preparations for leaving Sinai. But typically it is appropriate, because the p...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 special order of men whose persons and time were to be gi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 me, the gospel feature strongly pointed out. The Levit...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8 AND 9. Chapter 8 speaks of the candlestick. [1] The lamps were to make the light shine from it, and cause that light to be diffused around and before it. Th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SHALT SET THE LEVITES BEFORE AARON, AND BEFORE HIS SONS,.... After atonement was made for them, as Aben Ezra observes; then they were presented to Aaron and his sons, to whom they were given...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 8:12...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [THE CLEANSING THE LEUITES.] 1 How the lampes are to be lighted. 5 The consecration of the Leuites. 23 The age and time of their seruice. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto Aar...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PURIFYING OF THE LEVITES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 introduced in this place. But the previous Chapter s have bee...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-26 Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the Levites. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they wer...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. And Aaron did so; he lighted th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 8:13 stand H5975 (H8689) Levites H3881 before H6440 Aaron H175 and H6440 sons H1121 offer H5130 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THREEFOLD OFFERING OF THE LEVITES AS A WAVE-OFFERING TO YAHWEH (NUMBERS 8:10). Numbers 8:10 “ And you shall present the Levites before Yahweh. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands on...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Numbers 8:5. _And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them._ These men were to be the servants of God; they are the type of God's elect,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Cleansing of the Levites for the ministry of the tabernacle. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: All Christians, and especially ministers, should cleanse themselves from all filthin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 service._ The great and awful work of expiation belongs solely t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 8:5__ The Levites took the place of the firstborn Israelites (vv. Numbers 8:16). Their cleansing made them fit to be offered to God. The leaders then laid hands on them, symbol

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE HALLOWING OF THE LEVITES (Numbers 8:5-4). NUMBERS 8:5 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. At some time subsequent to the command given in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps that shall give light there in the candlestick. And so Aaron lighted the lamps of t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Numbers 18:6; Numbers 8:11; Numbers 8:21; Romans 12:1; Romans 15:16...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Set the Levites before Aaron — Give the Levites to them, or to their service. Unto the Lord — For to him they were first properly offered, and by him given to the priests in order to his service....

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