Bilangan 8:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab semua anak sulung yang ada pada orang Israel, baik dari manusia maupun dari hewan, adalah kepunyaan-Ku; pada waktu Aku membunuh semua anak sulung di tanah Mesir, Aku telah menguduskan semuanya bagi-Ku.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab semua anak sulung yang ada pada orang Israel, baik dari manusia maupun dari hewan, adalah kepunyaan-Ku; pada waktu Aku membunuh semua anak sulung di tanah Mesir, Aku telah menguduskan semuanya bagi-Ku.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena Aku juga yang empunya segala anak sulung di antara bani Israel, baik dari pada manusia baik dari pada binatang, karena pada hari Aku palu segala anak sulung di negeri Mesir, maka mereka itu telah Kusucikan bagi diri-Ku.

Contextual Overview

⁵ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ⁶ Take the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. ⁷ And thus shalt thou do vnto them, when thou cleansest them: Sprinckle water of purifiyng vpon them, and let them shaue all their fleshe, and let them washe their clothes, and so make them selues cleane. ⁸ Then let them take a young bullocke with his meate offeryng [euen] fine floure minged with oyle, and another young bullocke shalt thou take for a sinne offeryng. ⁹ And thou shalt bryng the Leuites before the tabernacle of the congregation, thou shalt gather the whole multitude of the children of Israel together, ¹⁰ And bryng the Leuites before the Lorde, and the children of Israel shall put their handes vpon the Leuites. ¹¹ And Aaron shall waue the Leuites before the Lorde for a waue offeryng of the children of Israel, that they may execute the ministration of the seruice of the Lorde. ¹² And the Leuites shal put their handes vpon the heades of the bullockes: and thou shalt offer the one for a sinne offeryng, and the other for a burnt offeryng vnto the Lorde, that thou mayest make an attonement for the Leuites. ¹³ And thou shalt set the Leuites before Aaron and his sonnes, and waue them for a waue offeryng vnto the Lorde. ¹⁴ And thus thou shalt seperate the Leuites from among the children of Israel, and the Leuites shalbe myne.

Bible Verse Review
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all the: Numbers 3:13, Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12-15, Luke 2:23

on the day: Exodus 12:29, Psalms 78:51, Psalms 105:36, Psalms 135:8, Hebrews 11:28

I sanctified: Exodus 13:14, Exodus 13:15, Exodus 29:44, Leviticus 27:14, Leviticus 27:15, Leviticus 27:26, Ezekiel 20:12, John 10:36, John 17:19, Hebrews 10:29, James 1:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 8:14 - and the Levites

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 8:13
And it came to passe, in the sixe hundreth and one yere, in ye first moneth, the first [day] of the moneth, the waters were dryed vp from the earth, and Noah remoued the coueryng of the arke, and looked, and beholde, the vpper face of the grounde was dryed vp.

Genesis 8:14
And in the seconde moneth, in the seuen and twentie day of the moneth was the earth dryed.

Genesis 8:15
And God spake vnto Noah, saying:

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Psalms 107:38
He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all the firstborn of the children of Israel [are] mine,

[both] men and beasts,.... Not only in common with other of his creatures, but in a special respect on account of his signal deliverance of them; they were his, as Jarchi expresses it, by the line of judgment, or rule of justice and equity, because he protected them among the firstborn of the Egyptians, saved them when he slew theirs, as follows:

in the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt; both of men and beasts:

I sanctified them for myself; claimed them as his own, and set them apart for his own use, or ordered them to be set apart: see Exodus 13:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levites could only undertake their duties Numbers 3:0; Numbers 4:0 after the formal exchange of the Levites for the first-born Numbers 3:44-51.

The distinction between the “consecration” of the priests Leviticus 8:0 and the less solemn “purification” Numbers 8:21 of the Levites is marked. These rites of purification are similar to those incumbent on the priests of Egypt.

Numbers 8:7

Water of purifying - literally, “sin water:” i. e. water to cleanse from sin; no doubt taken from the laver of the sanctuary, which was used by the priests for purification before they went into the tabernacle to minister (compare Numbers 5:17; Exodus 30:18 ff).

The “sprinkling” of so large a body of men could have been only general, but tokens of individual purification are specified (compare also Leviticus 14:8).

Numbers 8:8

The two bullocks were “to make an atonement for the Levites,” and therefore are presented in their name. These offerings are similar to those prescribed in Leviticus 8:14 ff at the consecration of the priests, except that the burnt-offering was on that occasion a ram. The larger victim corresponds to the larger number of the Levites.

Numbers 8:10

The children of Israel - i. e. through the heads of their tribes, who Numbers 7:2 no doubt acted for their tribesmen. This act, the distinguishing feature of the ceremony, represented the transfer to the Levites of the sacred duties originally incumbent on the whole people.

Numbers 8:11

Offer ... offering - Compare the margin Aaron pointed to the Levites, and then waved his hands, indicating (compare Leviticus 7:30 note) that the offering was dedicated to God, and, again, by grant from Him, withdrawn for the use of the priests.

Numbers 8:19

Make an atonement for the children of Israel - i. e. by performing those services which were due from the children of Israel; the omission of which by the children of Israel would, but for the interposition of the Levites, have called down “wrath” from God, or Numbers 1:53 “plague.” The institution of the Levites was an extension of that mediatorial system which the people themselves, terrified at the direct manifestations to them of the divine presence, desired; see Deuteronomy 5:25. Further, it is suggested to us here as an act of mercy on the part of God; yet even the priests and Levites themselves were not always sufficiently heedful and reverent. Compare Numbers 17:10; Leviticus 10:1 ff; 2 Samuel 6:6 following.

Numbers 8:21

Were purified - Rather, purified themselves; as directed in Numbers 8:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 8:17. For all the first-born - are mine — See the manner of redeeming the first-born, Numbers 18:6.