Numbers 8:6
in Numbers 8“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.
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ASV
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
KJV
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
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This verse in Numbers 8
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Take the Levites from among the children
on Numbers 8:6-8
The word used over the Levites is cleansing, where Leviticus 8 made the priests by consecration, with blood on the ear, thumb and toe and the anointing oil poured on the head, and Albert Barnes marks that difference as deliberate. The water of purifying is water of sin in the Hebrew, made with the ashes of the red heifer, and the making of it is not written down until Numbers 19, eleven chapters after this use of it. Shaving all the flesh and washing the clothes is what a cleansed leper does at Leviticus 14:8-9, so the tribe being brought into the sanctuary is handled like a man being brought back into the camp. The young bullock of verse 8 is the sin offering the law appoints for the whole congregation at Leviticus 4:14, which suits men standing in the room of every firstborn in Israel.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קַ֚ח | kach | take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַלְוִיִּ֔ם | halviyim | the Levites | H3881 → | 291 times |
| מִתּ֖וֹךְ | mitokh | from among | H8432 → | 418 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וְטִהַרְתָּ֖ | vetiharta | and you will purify | H2891 → | 94 times |
| אֹתָֽם׃ | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
קַ֚חtake
kachH3947 →966 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַלְוִיִּ֔םthe Levites
halviyimH3881 →291 times
מִתּ֖וֹךְfrom among
mitokhH8432 →418 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וְטִהַרְתָּ֖and you will purify
vetihartaH2891 →94 times
אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
James 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
it leads to
- Psalms 145:18
The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Malachi 3:7
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…
- Zechariah 1:3
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Psalms 145:18
Through
2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
it leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7
About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).