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Numbers 8:14

in Numbers 8

In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.

KJV

Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

This verse in Numbers 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons

on Numbers 8:13-15

Verse 14 says “the Levites will belong to Me”, and verse 19 gives them “as a gift to Aaron”. God owns them and the priest directs their work. Numbers 3:9 and 18:6 say the same.

This site's exposition

the Levites will belong to Me

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown spell out what belonging meant in practice, release from military service, from ordinary trade and from taxes. Numbers 1:49 had already left Levi out of the army's census. The tribe's working life belonged to the sanctuary.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

and the Levites shall be mine--that is, exempt from all military duty or secular work--free from all pecuniary imposition and wholly devoted to the custody and service of the sanctuary.

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The words behind it

9 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.

  • וְהִבְדַּלְתָּ֙and you will separate

    vehivdaltaH914 →42 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

  • וְהָ֥יוּand they will belong

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • לִ֖יto <the> me

    li

  • הַלְוִיִּֽם׃the Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

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

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

    Romans 1:1

    Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

    it leads to

    • Acts 9:15

      “Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

    • Romans 15:16

      to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy…

    • 1 Corinthians 1:1

      Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

    • Jeremiah 1:5

      “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

    • Colossians 1:1

      Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

  • Through

    Malachi 3:17

    “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 19:5

      Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

    • Deuteronomy 7:6

      For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…

    • 2 Corinthians 6:18

      And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.