Numbers 3:11

And the Lord said to Moses,

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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10And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

12See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

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Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:2-14

The Separation of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord , when they offered strange fire before the Lord , in the wilderness of Sinai, and… Read the whole commentary →

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