Numbers 8:15
After that, the Levites must go in to serve in the tent of meeting. You must purify them. You must offer them as a wave offering.
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Numbers 3:12“Look, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel. I have done this instead of taking each firstborn male who is born among the people of Israel. The Levites belong to me.
Numbers 4:3Count all the men who are thirty to fifty years old. These men must join the company to serve in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 8:13Present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and lift them up as a wave offering to me.
1 Chronicles 25:1David and the leaders of the army selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:6-26
The Consecration of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. 9 And thou… Read the whole commentary →