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 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 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
Where this verse is studied
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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).
