Numeri 8:10

10 E quando tu avrai fatti appessare i Leviti davanti al Signore, posino i figliuoli d’Israele le lor mani sopra i Leviti.

Numeri 8:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 8:10

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord
From the door of the tabernacle, to the altar of burnt offering, where the Lord was in some sense present to accept the sacrifices offered to him:

and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites;
as were used to be put upon sacrifices, for the Levites were themselves offered for an offering of the children of Israel, as is expressed in ( Numbers 8:11 ) ; by which rite they signified that they voluntarily parted with them, and gave them up to the Lord, and transferred their service to them, in which they were to serve in their room and stead; these, according to some Jewish writers, were the firstborn of Israel that laid their hands on the Levites, a type of the general assembly and church of the firstborn; or rather the princes and heads of the tribes, who represented the whole body. Some think by this rite is signified the consent of the people in the designation and appointment of the ministers of the word to their work and office; but what in the New Testament seems to answer to this is, the laying of the hands of the presbytery on ministers of the word, ( 1 Timothy 4:14 ) .

Numeri 8:10 In-Context

8 Poi prendano un giovenco con la sua offerta di panatica, che sia fior di farina, stemperata con olio; e tu piglia un altro giovenco per sacrificio per lo peccato.

9 E fa’ appressare i Leviti davanti al Tabernacolo della convenenza, e aduna tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele.

10 E quando tu avrai fatti appessare i Leviti davanti al Signore, posino i figliuoli d’Israele le lor mani sopra i Leviti.

11 E presenti Aaronne i Leviti davanti al Signore, per offerta dimenata da parte de’ figliuoli d’Israele; e sieno per esercitare il ministerio del Signore.

12 Poi posino i Leviti le lor mani sopra la testa di que’ giovenchi; e tu sacrificane l’uno per sacrificio per lo peccato, e l’altro per olocausto, al Signore, per far purgamento per i Leviti.