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Numbers 8:6

in Numbers 8

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

This verse in Numbers 8

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Take the Levites from among the Israelites

on Numbers 8:6-8

The Levites are cleansed, where Leviticus 8 consecrated the priests with blood and anointing oil, and Albert Barnes marks the difference as deliberate. Shaving and washing the clothes is what a cleansed leper does at Leviticus 14:8-9.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel,....

The words behind it

8 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.

  • 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 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

    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.

    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.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 7:1

    Therefore, 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.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).