Numbers 8

Numbers 8:1

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.

Numbers 8:2

the = the face of the.

candlestick = light-holder (as in Genesis 1:14), or lampstand. Compare Exodus 25:31-39; Exodus 37:17-24.

Numbers 8:3

as = according as.

Numbers 8:4

unto. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Onkelos Manuscript, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read “and unto”.

Numbers 8:6

children = sons.

Numbers 8:7

water of purifying = sin water: i.e., water prepared as in Numbers 19.

Numbers 8:8

meat offering. See App-43.

sin offering. See App-43.

Numbers 8:9

tabernacle of the congregation = tent of meeting. App-40.

Numbers 8:11

offer. Hebrew wave. See note on Exodus 29:27.

offering. Hebrew wave offering. See App-43.

execute the service. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). Hebrew “serve the service” = perform the solemn service.

Numbers 8:12

the Levites. Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6), the verse beginning and ending with the same word.

offer = prepare. Hebrew. ’asah. App-43.

atonement. See note on Exodus 29:33.

Numbers 8:14

Mine. Compare Numbers 3:45.

Numbers 8:15

offer them for an offering = wave them for a wave offering. See Exodus 29:27.

Numbers 8:17

For. Compare Exodus 13:2. Exodus 3:13.

man. Hebrew. ’adam. See App-14.

on the day. See App-18.

Numbers 8:23

as = according as.

Numbers 8:24

twenty and five years old. This was the commencement of a five years’ probation. The age, thirty, was the age of their numbering. See note on Numbers 4:3.

to wait, &c. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), as in verses: Numbers 8:11, Numbers 8:15, Numbers 8:19. Literally war the warfare.

Numbers 8:26

from the age, &c. Observe the gracious care of Jehovah.