And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
When this was spoken, says Bp. Patrick, is not certain. If Moses went into the tabernacle immediately after the princes had offered, 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. 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.
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 the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
sprinkle
Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Leviticus 14:7 And he shall sprinkle on him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy …
Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths …
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
water
Numbers 19:9,10,13,17-19 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, …
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer …
let them shave. Heb. let them cause a razor to pass over
Leviticus 14:8,9 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off …
wash their
Numbers 19:7,8,10,19 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh …
Numbers 31:20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all …
Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, …
Exodus 19:10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to …
Leviticus 15:6,10,11,27 And he that sits on any thing where on he sat that has the issue …
Leviticus 16:28 And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh …
Psalm 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
Matthew 23:25,26 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …
Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they …
Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
a young
Exodus 29:1,3 And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to …
Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a …
Leviticus 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing …
his meat
Numbers 15:8,9 And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice …
Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering …
another
Leviticus 4:3,14 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the …
Leviticus 16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for …
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when …
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, …
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
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.
offer. 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
Numbers 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: …
Exodus 29:24 And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of …
Leviticus 7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, …
Leviticus 8:27,29 And he put all on Aaron's hands, and on his sons' hands, and waved …
they may execute. Heb. they may be to execute
Numbers 1:49-53 Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum …
Numbers 3:5-43 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
levites
Exodus 29:10 And you shall cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle …
Leviticus 1:4 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and …
Leviticus 8:14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his …
Leviticus 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, …
the one
Numbers 8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine …
Numbers 6:14,16 And he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one he lamb of the first …
Leviticus 5:7,9,10 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his …
Leviticus 8:14,18 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his …
Leviticus 9:7 And Moses said to Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer your sin offering, …
Leviticus 14:19,20,22 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement …
Hebrews 10:4-10 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should …
atonement
Leviticus 1:4 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and …
Leviticus 4:20,35 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a …
Leviticus 8:34 As he has done this day, so the LORD has commanded to do, to make …
Leviticus 16:6,11,16-19 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for …
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without …
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
offer them. 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, 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 8:11,21 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering …
Numbers 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among …
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …
Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering …
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
separate
Numbers 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man …
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark …
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated …
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, …
Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …
and the Levites
Numbers 8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast…
Numbers 3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children …
Numbers 16:9,10 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated …
Numbers 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among …
Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when …
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
wholly given. The word being repeated, 'because,' says Bp. Patrick, 'the children of Israel had devoted them to him, by laying their hands upon them, and Aaron had waved them as a wave-offering to the Lord.' instead of such. Houbigant, on the authority of the Samaritan, reads, 'instead of every first-born of the children of Israel, who openeth the womb.'
Numbers 3:12,45 And I, behold…
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
all the
Numbers 3:13 Because all the firstborn are mine…
Exodus 13:2,12-15 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the …
Luke 2:23 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that opens the …
on the day
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn …
Psalm 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength …
Psalm 105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Psalm 135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, …
I sanctified
Exodus 13:14,15 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What …
Exodus 29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: …
Leviticus 27:14,15,26 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to the LORD, then …
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and …
John 10:36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the …
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified …
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, …
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should …
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
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 in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
I Have given
Numbers 3:6-9 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, …
Numbers 18:2-6 And your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, …
1 Chronicles 23:28-32 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service …
Ezekiel 44:11-14 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the …
a gift. Heb. given. that there
Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony…
Numbers 16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from …
Numbers 18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of …
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into …
2 Chronicles 26:16-20 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …
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.
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.
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
This is it that belongeth unto 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:
from twenty. In Ch.
Numbers 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even …
1 Chronicles 4:3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: …
1 Chronicles 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
Numbers 4:3,23 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all …
1 Chronicles 23:3,24-27 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: …
1 Chronicles 28:12,13 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of …
wait upon. Heb. war the warfare of
1 Corinthians 9:7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, …
2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through …
1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies …
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto …
2 Timothy 2:3-5 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ…
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
cease waiting upon the service thereof. Heb. return from the warfare of the service
Numbers 4:23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you …
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
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.
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
