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In the blessing of Levi by Moses, the usual order of these two mysterious words is reversed, and Thummim is put before Urim. There is probably a reason for this, namely, to suggest that Levi's zeal for the "right and perfect way" of God, amid the general defection at Horeb, was his real title to the honourable office of interpreting God's "light" and God's "truth" from His holy oracles. This supreme devotion of himself to "right" was indeed the sole condition of his blessing and of the Divine election which it declared.

(T. G. Rooke, B. A.)

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KJV: And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

WEB: Of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;