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Numbers 8:12-14
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Numbers 8:12-14
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12 When[a] the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer[b] the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord,[c] to make atonement for the Levites. 13 You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron[d] and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. 14 And so[e] you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
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- Numbers 8:12 tn The clause begins with a vav (ו) on the noun “the Levites,” indicating a disjunctive clause. Here it is clearly a subordinate clause prior to the instruction for Moses, and so translated as a circumstantial clause of time.
- Numbers 8:12 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals.
- Numbers 8:12 sn The “purification offering” cleansed the tabernacle from impurity, and the burnt offering atoned by nullifying and removing the effects of sin in the Levites.
- Numbers 8:13 tc The Greek text adds the Lord here: “before the Lord, before Aaron.”
- Numbers 8:14 tn The vav (ו) consecutive on the perfect tense not only carries the nuance of instruction forward to this clause, but also marks this clause out as a summary of what has taken place, i.e., by doing all this ritual Moses will have separated the Levites from the people for God’s own possession.
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