The Levites could only undertake their duties (Numbers 3; Numbers 4) after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-…

And offer them for an offering. —Literally, and wave them as a wave- offering, as in Numbers 8:11. So also in Numbers 8:15.

We are to offer up to God our spirit, soul and body, which is our reasonable service; and if we are indeed God's children, we are to feel that, fro…

And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
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After atonement was m…

Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the Levites. All Israel must know that they did not take this honor to themselves, but were ca…