申命记 10:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那時，耶和華把利未支派分別出來，叫他們抬耶和華的約櫃，侍立在耶和華面前事奉他，並且奉他的名祝福，直到今日。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
那 时 ， 耶 和 华 将 利 未 支 派 分 别 出 来 ， 抬 耶 和 华 的 约 柜 ， 又 侍 立 在 耶 和 华 面 前 事 奉 他 ， 奉 他 的 名 祝 福 ， 直 到 今 日 。

Contextual Overview

¹ At that time the Lord said to me, "Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden Ark. ² I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you will put the new tablets in the Ark." ³ So I made the Ark out of acacia wood, and I cut out two stone tablets like the first ones. Then I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴ The Lord wrote the same things on these tablets he had written before —the Ten Commandments that he had told you on the mountain from the fire, on the day you were gathered there. And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and came down the mountain; I put the tablets in the Ark I had made, as the Lord had commanded, and they are still there. ⁶ (The people of Israel went from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried; his son Eleazar became priest in his place. ⁷ From Moserah they went to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah they went to Jotbathah, a place with streams of water. ⁸ At that time the Lord chose the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord . They were to serve the Lord and to bless the people in his name, which they still do today. ⁹ That is why the Levites did not receive any land of their own; instead, they received the Lord himself as their gift, as the Lord your God told them.) ¹⁰ I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights just like the first time, and the Lord listened to me this time also. He did not want to destroy you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

time the Lord: Exodus 29:1-37, Leviticus 8:9, Numbers 1:47-53, Numbers 3:1 - Numbers 4:49, Numbers 8:1-26, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10, Numbers 18:1-32, John 15:16, Acts 13:2, Romans 1:1, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Galatians 1:15

bear: Numbers 3:31, Numbers 4:15, 1 Kings 8:3, 1 Kings 8:4, 1 Kings 8:6, 1 Chronicles 15:12-15, 1 Chronicles 15:26, 1 Chronicles 23:26, 2 Chronicles 5:4, 2 Chronicles 5:5

to stand: Deuteronomy 18:5, 2 Chronicles 29:11, Psalms 134:2, Psalms 135:2, Jeremiah 15:19, Ezekiel 44:11, Ezekiel 44:15, Romans 12:7

to bless: Deuteronomy 21:5, Leviticus 9:22, Numbers 6:23-26, 2 Chronicles 30:27

Reciprocal: Numbers 8:14 - separate Deuteronomy 17:12 - the priest Judges 20:28 - stood 1 Samuel 16:21 - stood before him 1 Kings 1:2 - a young virgin 1 Kings 17:1 - before whom Zechariah 3:1 - standing Zechariah 4:14 - that Revelation 11:4 - standing

Cross-References

Micah 5:6
They will destroy the Assyrians with their swords; they will conquer the land of Assyria with their swords drawn. They will rescue us from the Assyrians when they come into our land, when they walk over our borders.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi,.... Not at the time that Moses came down from the mount with the tables of the law, but some considerable time after, even after the tabernacle was erected; nor at the time that Aaron died, and Eleazar succeeded him, but many years before that; unless there was a fresh separation of them, or a renewal of it when Eleazar became high priest in his father's stead; and so that being mentioned is the reason of its being repeated here;

to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord; even that into which the law, sometimes called the covenant, was put, and therefore here called the ark of the covenant: when this was carried from place to place, as it was especially in the wilderness, it was the business of the Levites to bear it, particularly the Kohathites; Numbers 3:31,

to stand before the Lord to minister unto him; that is, to his priests, in the tabernacle, and to keep and guard that:

and to bless in his name unto this day; not to bless the people, which was the work of the priest, but to sing praise in the name of the Lord, to give thanks unto him, and bless and praise him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are closely connected with the preceding chapter, and state very briefly the results of the intercession of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy 9:25-29. The people are reminded that all their blessings and privileges, forfeited by apostasy as soon as bestowed, were only now their own by a new and most unmerited act of grace on the part of God, won from Him by the self-sacrificing mediation of Moses himself Deuteronomy 10:10.

Deuteronomy 10:1-5. The order for making the ark and tabernacle was evidently given before the apostasy of the people (Exo. 25ff); but the tables were not put in the ark until the completion and dedication of the tabernacle Exodus 40:0. But here as elsewhere (compare the Deuteronomy 9:1 note) Moses connects transactions closely related to each other and to his purpose without regard to the order of occurrence.

Deuteronomy 10:6

There Aaron died - i. e., while the people were encamped in Mosera or Moseroth. In Deuteronomy 32:50; as well as in Numbers 20:25 ff Mount Hor is assigned as the place of Aaron’s death. It is plain then that Moserah was in the neighborhood of Mount Hor. The appointment of Eleazar to minister in place of Aaron, is referred to as a proof of the completeness and fulness of the reconciliation effected between God and the people by Moses. Though Aaron was sentenced to die in the wilderness for his sin at Meribah, yet God provided for the perpetuation of the high priesthood, so that the people would not suffer. Compare Deuteronomy 9:20 and note.

Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time - i. e., that of the encampment at Sinai, as the words also import in Deuteronomy 10:1. Throughout the passage the time of the important events at Sinai is kept in view; it is reverted to as each incident is brought forward by Moses, alluded to sufficiently for his purpose, and dismissed.

Moses is evidently here speaking of the election by God of the tribe of Levi at large, priests and others also, for His own service.