Ezra 6:18
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And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
Read Ezra 6:18 Using Other Translations
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.
Then the priests and Levites were divided into their various divisions to serve at the Temple of God in Jerusalem, as prescribed in the Book of Moses.
What does Ezra 6:18 mean?
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Ezra 6:18
FOOTNOTES:
F13 Tract. Theolog. Polit. c. 8. p. 163.
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the
Levites
in their courses, for the service of God which is at
Jerusalem
All in their proper classes and courses, to do the work of the
temple at Jerusalem in their turns:
as it is written in the book of Moses;
see ( Numbers
3:6 ) ( Numbers 8:11
Numbers
8:14 Numbers 8:15
) , from hence it is plain the Pentateuch was not written by
Ezra, as suspected by Spinosa F13, but by Moses; see the
argument of the book of Genesis. (See Gill on Genesis
1:1).
F13 Tract. Theolog. Polit. c. 8. p. 163.
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