Numbers 8:8-18

8 "Then let them take a bull * * with ¹its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and a second bull you shall take for a sin offering.

9 "So ²you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting. ³You shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,

10 and present the Levites before the LORD; and the sons of Israel ⁴shall lay their hands on the Levites.

11 "Aaron then shall present the Levites before the LORD as a ⁵wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may qualify to perform the service of the LORD.

12 "Now ⁶the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

13 "You shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons so as to present them as a wave offering to the LORD.

14 "Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and ⁷the Levites shall be Mine.

15 "Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and ⁸present them as a wave offering;

16 for they are ⁹wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself ¹⁰instead of every first issue of the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.

17 "For ¹¹every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

18 "But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.

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Numbers 8:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 8

In this chapter orders are given for the lighting the seven lamps of the candlestick, Nu 8:1-4; and for the consecration of the Levites to their office, by a purification of them, Nu 8:5-8; by a separation of them from the children of Israel, and the imposition of their hands on them, and of the hands of the Levites on the offerings offered for them, Nu 8:9-15; and being thus given to the Lord, and claimed as his, instead of the firstborn of Israel, they are given to Aaron and his sons to do service in the tabernacle, Nu 8:16-22; and their age at which they were to enter into service and cease from it is fixed, Nu 8:23-26.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Leviticus 2:1; Numbers 15:8-10
2. Exodus 29:4; Exodus 40:12
3. Leviticus 8:3
4. Leviticus 1:4
5. Leviticus 7:30, 34
6. Exodus 29:10
7. Numbers 3:12; Numbers 16:9
8. Exodus 29:24
9. Numbers 3:9
10. Exodus 13:2; Numbers 3:12, 45
11. Ex 13:2, 12, 13, 15; Luke 2:23

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or "bull of the herd"
[b]. Or "bull of the herd"
[c]. Lit "wave," and so throughout the ch
[d]. Lit "be able"

Numbers 8:8-18

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Numbers 8:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 8

Cross References 11

Footnotes 4