Darby's translation notes (1890)
Numbers 8:11
8:11 offer (c-4) Lit. 'wave.' so vers. 13,15,21, and Leviticus 7:30 .
8:11 offer (c-4) Lit. 'wave.' so vers. 13,15,21, and Leviticus 7:30 .
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
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...
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...
OFFER. Hebrew wave. See note on Exodus 29:27. OFFERING. Hebrew wave offering. See App-43. EXECUTE THE SERVICE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). Hebrew "serve the service". perform the solemn s...
_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...
_offer_ WAVE, as R.V. marg.; see Numbers 8:13_; Numbers 8:15; Numbers 8:21_. The literal significance of the term (see on Numbers 5:25) is here
AARON SHALL OFFER THE LEVITES, &C.— _Shall wave the Levites for a wave-offering._ Margin of our English Bibles. See Exodus 29:26. As Aaron, properly speaking, could not wave the Levites, it is probabl...
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...
_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...
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...
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
AND AARON SHALL OFFER THE LEVITES BEFORE THE LORD FOR AN OFFERING. — Literally, _and Aaron shall wave the Levites as a wave-offering before the Lord._ The manner in which the Levites were thus set apa...
וְ הֵנִיף֩ אַהֲרֹ֨ן אֶת ־הַ לְוִיִּ֤ם תְּנוּפ
This passage is addressed briefly in the comments (paragraph 8) for Numbers 3:11, THE FIRST-BORN....
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...
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...
_A gift. Hebrew, "he shall heave them as a heave-offering before the Lord." Some assert, that Aaron lifted each of them towards the four quarters of the world; (ver. 21,) or he made them go up towards...
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...
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...
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...
AND AARON SHALL OFFER THE LEVITES BEFORE THE LORD,.... Or "wave" r them, as a wave offering, which was moved to and fro, backwards and forwards; not that they were actually so waved and moved to and f...
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. Ver. 11. _And Aaron shall offer the Levites._] Heb., Wave...
_Aaron shall offer_ Hebrew, _Shall wave the Levites for a wave- offering;_ not that Aaron did so wave them, which be could not do, but it is probable that he lifted up his hands, and turned to all qua...
[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...
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 peculi...
THE PURIFYING OF THE LEVITES...
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...
OFFER: _ Heb._ wave OFFERING: _ Heb._ wave offering THEY MAY EXECUTE: _ Heb._ they may be to execute, etc....
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...
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...
"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...
Numbers 8:11 Aaron H175 offer H5130 (H8689) Levites H3881 before H6440 LORD H3068 offering H8573 children H1121 Israel
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 8:1. (Compare Exodus 25:31; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 37:17;...
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...
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...
Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 7:30; Leviticus 8:27; Leviticus 8:29; Num
For an offering — Heb. for a wave — offering. Not that Aaron did so wave them, which he could not do, but that he caused them to imitate that motion, and to wave themselves toward the several parts of...