John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 8:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, etc.] By sprinkling the water of purification upon them; by offering sacrifices for them; by presenting them before the Lord, with the hands of the people of Israel put upon them; by offering and waving them before the Lord, and by setting them before Aaron and his sons, as their ministers: and the Levites shall be mine: in a special and peculiar manner devoted to his service, and by him given to his priests for that purpose; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, “and the Levites shall minister before me.”

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