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Numbers 8:9

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Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel:

KJV

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

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This verse in Numbers 8

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting

on Numbers 8:9-10

The whole congregation is gathered, so the exchange is made before witnesses. Hands are laid on an animal about to die, as the elders do for the congregation at Leviticus 4:15, and here on living men.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation,....

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֙and you will bring near

    vehikravtaH7126 →280 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֔םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אֹ֣הֶל[the] tent of

    ʾohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֑דmeeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

  • וְהִ֨קְהַלְתָּ֔and you will assemble

    vehikhaltaH6950 →39 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עֲדַ֖ת[the] congregation of

    ʾadatH5712 →149 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Exodus 40:12

    Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 8:1–13

      Then the LORD said to Moses,

    • Exodus 29:1–35

      “Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,

    • Leviticus 9:1–24

      On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

    • Galatians 4:4

      But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

    • John 3:34

      For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

  • Through

    Leviticus 8:3

    and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

    it leads to

    • Acts 2:1

      When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

    • 2 Chronicles 30:13

      In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

    • Numbers 20:8

      “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from…

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies2

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 8 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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