Numbers 18:1

Adonai said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the depravity (moral evil) of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the depravity (moral evil) of your priesthood.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

In Context

2+ 18:2. Num 18:2 (Num 18:1-7, 18:20-24) (#2b.162): T. “Levites with Aaron and his sons who are Cohenim ·Priests· shall be before the tent of the testimony” (v2) / R. The Cohenim ·Priests· are to stand guard over the Sanctuary continually Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi [United with], the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:38It shall be on Aaron [Light-bringer]’s forehead, and Aaron [Light-bringer] shall bear the depravity (moral evil) of the holy things, which the children of Israel [God prevails] shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Adonai.

Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your depravities (moral evils), even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

Numbers 17:7Moses [Drawn out] laid up the rods before Adonai in the Tent of the Testimony.

Numbers 18:22Henceforth the children of Israel [God prevails] shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal·, and die.

Isaiah 53:11+ 53:11 a MP: God is fully satisfied with the suffering of the Messiah. By accepting this, it infers the sin offering is accepted. Acceptance of the sin offering is seen in (Lev 4:20). Read in context of (Lev 4:2-7). (John 10:17-18; Gal 1:4; 1 Pet 2:24) After this ordeal, he will see satisfaction 2 “By his knowing [pain and sacrifice]. 1 + 53:11 b MP: Messiah has intimate knowledge of the anguish and suffering of the sin that his atonement is covering. (Heb 2:17-18; 4:15, 9:28) My righteous + 53:11 b MP: Messiah is God’s servant. (John 6:38; Romans 6:19) servant will justify many; 2 for it is their depravities (moral evils) that he suffers. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 18:1

Aaron being now fully established in the priesthood abundantly to his own satisfaction, and to the satisfaction of the people (which was the good that God brought out of the evil opposition made to him), in this chapter God gives him full instructions concerning his office or rather repeats those which he had before given him. He tells him, I. What must be his work and the care and charge committed to him, and what assistance he should have the Levites in that work, ver. 1-7 . II. What should be his and the… Read the whole commentary →

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