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and you shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites:
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A Symbolic Transfer of Duty
Commentators agree that the laying on of hands by the children of Israel was a symbolic act of transfer. By doing this, the people formally transferred the sacred duties and obligations, which originally belonged to the whole nation (specifically the firstborn), onto the Levites. This act designated the Levites as substitutes, serving God on behalf of all Israel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Levites could only undertake their duties (Numbers 3; Numbers 4) after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-…
19th Century
Anglican
Shall put their hands upon the Levites. —The same phrase is here used as in Numbers 8:12, and elsewhere, of the offerer w…
Baptist
There is no true way of serving God without the atonement.
Leave that out, and you have left out the vital part of the whole.
What serv…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall bring the Levites before the Lord From the door of the tabernacle, to the altar of burnt offering, whe…
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…
