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Texts -- Numbers 8:20-26 (NET)

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8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites . According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites , this is what the Israelites did with them. 8:21 The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing ; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the Lord , and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. 8:22 After this , the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons . As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites , so they did .
The Work of the Levites
8:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses : 8:24 “This is what pertains to the Levites : At the age of twenty-five years and upward one may begin to join the company in the work of the tent of meeting , 8:25 and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work . 8:26 They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting , to attend to needs , but they must do no work . This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties .”

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • When the book opens the Israelites were in the second month of the second year after they departed from Egypt (1:1). In chapters 7-10 we read things that happened in the nation before that. These things happened when Moses fi...
  • To formulate a statement that summarizes the teaching of this book it will be helpful to identify some of the major revelations in Numbers. These constitute the unique values of the book.The first major value of Numbers is th...
  • I. Experiences of the older generation in the wilderness chs. 1-25A. Preparations for entering the Promised Land from the south chs. 1-101. The first census and the organization of the people chs. 1-42. Commands and rituals t...
  • Note the recurrance of a key word in the Pentateuch in verse l: toledot."For the first time after the formative events of the Exodus deliverance and the revelation on Mount Sinai, the people of Israel are organized into a hol...
  • Moses did not arrange the three Levitical families in the text here in the order of the ages of their founders. He arranged them in the order of the holiness of the articles that they managed.The Kohathites--who included Mose...
  • The consecration of the priests had taken place earlier (cf. Lev. 8). Then the people only looked on (Lev. 8:3-4). On the present occasion God set apart to His service the whole tribe of Levi that He had taken in place of the...
  • "As the laws increase and the constraints grow, the people seem less willing or less capable of following them. At this point in the narrative we see that the whole order of the priesthood is thrown open to direct confrontati...
  • As Solomon had done, these Jews contracted with the Phoenicians to the north to supply wood for the temple (cf. 2 Chron. 2:16). The people needed several months of preparations before actual construction began on the site in ...
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