Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Numbers 8:22

in Numbers 8

After that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

KJV

And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

This verse in Numbers 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

So Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel

on Numbers 8:20-23

Adam Clarke observes that men so solemnly given to God still could not come near until “Aaron also made atonement for them”. The order has held since verse 6: cleansing, presenting, sacrifice, then service.

This site's exposition

in the presence of Aaron and his sons

In the presence of Aaron and his sons picks up verse 13, where the Levites were stood before the priests. John Wesley reads that standing as the tribe's gift to the priests' service, offered first to God and handed on by Him. Numbers 18:3 later bars them from the altar.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And after that went the Levites in,....

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וְאַחֲרֵי־and after

    veacharei-H310 →715 times

  • כֵ֞ןthus

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • בָּ֣אוּthey went

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֗םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • לַעֲבֹ֤דto serve

    laavodH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֲבֹֽדָתָם֙service their

    ʾavodatamH5656 →145 times

  • בְּאֹ֣הֶלin [the] tent of

    beohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵ֔דmeeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֖ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • וְלִפְנֵ֣יand <to> before

    velifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • בָנָ֑יוsons his

    vanavH1121 →4930 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁר֩just as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֨הhe had commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֤הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֔םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • כֵּ֖ןso

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • עָשׂ֥וּthey did

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • לָהֶֽם׃ סto <the> them

    lahem

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

    2 Chronicles 30:27

    Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 26:15

      Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

    • Psalms 68:5

      A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

    • Isaiah 57:15

      For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,…

    • 2 Chronicles 23:18

      Moreover, Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of the LORD into the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had appointed over the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the…

    • Deuteronomy 10:8

      At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in…

  • Through

    Numbers 8:15

    After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 8:11

      Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.

    • Numbers 8:13

      You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as a wave offering.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 31:2

    Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for singing praises…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 24:1

      These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

About Numbers

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.