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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 8:1

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appoint;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bemidbar Rabbah;   Sidra;   Triennial Cycle;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to Moses,
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE talked with Moses, & sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, Speke thou to Aaron,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Exodus 25:31-40">[xr] And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
New Living Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto Moses saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Now the LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Tell Aaron, Install the seven lamps so they will throw light in front of the Lampstand."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.” 3So Aaron did this; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 4This is the way the lampstand was made: it was a hammered work of gold, hammered from its base to its flower petals. The lampstand was made according to the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

When this was spoken, says Bp. Patrick, is not certain. If Moses went into the tabernacle immediately after the princes had offered - Numbers 7:89, it may be thought he then spake these things unto him; but both this and what follows, concerning the Levites, seem rather to have been delivered after the order for giving them to the priests, and appointing their several charges - Numbers 3:1, and Numbers 4:1. But some other things intervening, which depended upon what had been ordered respecting their camp, and that of the Israelites, Moses omits this until he had stated them, and some other matters which he had received from God. - See note on Numbers 7:11.

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:11 - Levi Deuteronomy 10:8 - time the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 8:7
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:9
but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter, and day and nightwill not cease.”
Genesis 19:29
So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning; and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Numbers 22:32
The angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because I consider what you are doing to be evil.
1 Samuel 1:19
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Whether immediately after the offerings of the princes, or at another time, is not certain; Aben Ezra thinks it was in the night God spake unto him, because then the lamps were lighted and burning:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The actual lighting of the lamps (compare the marginal references) was to be done to set forth symbolically the special presence which God had now Numbers 7:89 actually established among His people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

Directions how the lamps are to be lighted, 1-3.

How the candlestick was formed, 4.

The Levites to be consecrated to their service by being cleansed,

sprinkled, shaved, purified, and their clothes washed, 5-7.

To offer a meat-offering and a sin-offering, 8.

The people to put their hands upon them, 9, 10.

Aaron is to offer them before the Lord, 11.

The Levites to lay their hands on the heads of the bullocks,

&c., 12.

The Levites are taken to assist Aaron and his sons in the place

of all the first-born of Israel, 13-19.

Moses and Aaron do as they were commanded, the Levites are

presented, purified, and commence their service, 20-22.

They are to begin their service at twenty-five years of age, and

leave off at fifty, 23-25.

After this they shall have the general inspection of the service, 26.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII


 
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