the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Numbers 8:14
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Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Yisra'el, and the Levites shall be mine.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
"And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites, and the Levites will be for me.
In this way you must set apart the Levites from the other Israelites; the Levites will be mine.
And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites shall be Mine [in a very special sense].
"So you shall single out the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.
Thus thou shalt separate the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and the Leuites shal be mine.
"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.
This ceremony will show that the Levites are different from the other Israelites and belong to me in a special way.
In this way you will separate the L'vi'im from the people of Isra'el, and the L'vi'im will belong to me.
And thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, that the Levites may be mine.
This will make the Levites holy. They will be different from the other Israelites. The Levites will belong to me.
"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to me.
And you shall separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall become Mine.
and so shalt thou separate them from ye children of Israel, that they maye be myne.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
And thus thou shalt seperate the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and the Leuites shalbe myne.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.
Thus shalt thou separate the Leuites from among the children of Israel: and the Leuites shalbe mine.
And thou shalt separate the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and they shall be mine.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.
and thou schalt departe hem fro the myddis of the sones of Israel, that thei be myne.
and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.
In this way, you will set the Levites apart from the rest of the people of Israel, and the Levites will belong to me.
"So you will divide the Levites from the people of Israel. And the Levites will be Mine.
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the other Israelites, and the Levites shall be mine.
thus shalt thou separate the Levites out of the midst of the sons of Israel, - thus shall the Levites become mine.
And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine.
"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
"Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
separate: Numbers 6:2, Deuteronomy 10:8, Romans 1:1, Galatians 1:15, Hebrews 7:26
and the Levites: Numbers 8:17, Numbers 3:45, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10, Numbers 18:6, Malachi 3:17
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:2 - to minister
Cross-References
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel,.... By sprinkling the water of purification upon them; by offering sacrifices for them; by presenting them before the Lord, with the hands of the people of Israel put upon them; by offering and waving them before the Lord, and by setting them before Aaron and his sons, as their ministers:
and the Levites shall be mine: in a special and peculiar manner devoted to his service, and by him given to his priests for that purpose; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan,
"and the Levites shall minister before me.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Levites could only undertake their duties Numbers 3:0; Numbers 4:0 after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-born Numbers 3:44-51.
The distinction between the “consecration” of the priests Leviticus 8:0 and the less solemn “purification” Numbers 8:21 of the Levites is marked. These rites of purification are similar to those incumbent on the priests of Egypt.
Numbers 8:7
Water of purifying - literally, “sin water:” i. e. water to cleanse from sin; no doubt taken from the laver of the sanctuary, which was used by the priests for purification before they went into the tabernacle to minister (compare Numbers 5:17; Exodus 30:18 ff).
The “sprinkling” of so large a body of men could have been only general, but tokens of individual purification are specified (compare also Leviticus 14:8).
Numbers 8:8
The two bullocks were “to make an atonement for the Levites,” and therefore are presented in their name. These offerings are similar to those prescribed in Leviticus 8:14 ff at the consecration of the priests, except that the burnt-offering was on that occasion a ram. The larger victim corresponds to the larger number of the Levites.
Numbers 8:10
The children of Israel - i. e. through the heads of their tribes, who Numbers 7:2 no doubt acted for their tribesmen. This act, the distinguishing feature of the ceremony, represented the transfer to the Levites of the sacred duties originally incumbent on the whole people.
Numbers 8:11
Offer ... offering - Compare the margin Aaron pointed to the Levites, and then waved his hands, indicating (compare Leviticus 7:30 note) that the offering was dedicated to God, and, again, by grant from Him, withdrawn for the use of the priests.
Numbers 8:19
Make an atonement for the children of Israel - i. e. by performing those services which were due from the children of Israel; the omission of which by the children of Israel would, but for the interposition of the Levites, have called down “wrath” from God, or Numbers 1:53 “plague.” The institution of the Levites was an extension of that mediatorial system which the people themselves, terrified at the direct manifestations to them of the divine presence, desired; see Deuteronomy 5:25. Further, it is suggested to us here as an act of mercy on the part of God; yet even the priests and Levites themselves were not always sufficiently heedful and reverent. Compare Numbers 17:10; Leviticus 10:1 ff; 2 Samuel 6:6 following.
Numbers 8:21
Were purified - Rather, purified themselves; as directed in Numbers 8:7.
