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Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
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From Curse to Blessing
Commentators like Calvin and Barnes highlight that this blessing transforms the curse Jacob placed on Levi in Genesis 49. Jacob had condemned Levi to be scattered, but God turned this into an honor. Because of their subsequent faithfulness, their dispersion throughout Israel became a strategic way to teach God's law to all the people, showing how God can redeem a difficult past for His purposes.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your holy one - that is, Levi, regarded as the representative of the entire priestly and Levitical stock that descended from him. The contra…
19th Century
Anglican
And of Levi.—Next to Joseph, this tribe has the largest share in Moses’ last words, as might naturally be expected, since it was h…
Baptist
Judah was the royal tribe—it had much to do with warfare. Lord give him power in prayer! This is the distinctive benediction for those who have to …
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16th Century
Protestant
And of Levi he said. This qualification, or modification of the harsher sentence of Jacob, was introduced not only for the sake of the tri…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And of Levi he said That is, Moses said of the tribe of Levi, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem:
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The order in which the tribes are blessed here is not the same as is observed elsewhere. The blessing of Judah may refer to the whole tribe in gene…
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