Bilangan 8:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Orang Lewi itu menghapus dosa dari dirinya dan mencuci pakaian mereka, kemudian Harun mengunjukkan mereka sebagai persembahan unjukan di hadapan TUHAN, dan mengadakan pendamaian bagi mereka sambil mentahirkan mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Orang Lewi itu menghapus dosa dari dirinya dan mencuci pakaian mereka, kemudian Harun mengunjukkan mereka sebagai persembahan unjukan di hadapan TUHAN, dan mengadakan pendamaian bagi mereka sambil mentahirkan mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka disucikanlah orang Lewi dirinya dari pada dosa dan dibasuhkannyalah pakaiannya serta dilalulalangkan Harun akan mereka itu seperti persembahan timang-timangan di hadapan hadirat Tuhan, maka diadakan Harun gafirat atas mereka itu serta disucikannyalah mereka itu.

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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were purified: Numbers 8:7, Numbers 19:12, Numbers 19:19

offered: Numbers 8:11-13, Numbers 8:15, Numbers 3:12

Aaron made: Numbers 8:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:10 - wash Leviticus 14:11 - General Numbers 8:13 - offer them

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.

Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 5:29
And called his name Noah, saying: This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke, & sorowe of our handes about the earth, which God cursed.

Genesis 6:5
But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.

Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

Genesis 8:1
And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed.

Genesis 8:2
The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.

Genesis 8:3
And the waters from the earth returned, goyng and comming agayne: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day, the waters were abated.

Genesis 8:6
And after the ende of the fourtith day, it came to passe [that] Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made,

Genesis 8:7
And he sent foorth a Rauen, whiche went out, goyng foorth, and returnyng, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Levites were purified,.... From sin, by the sprinkling of the sin water, or water of purification on them, Numbers 8:7;

and they washed their clothes; that they might have no defilement about them, neither in their bodies, nor in their garments:

and Aaron offered them [as] an offering before the Lord; a wave offering, as in Numbers 8:11;

and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them; by offering the sacrifices for them, Numbers 8:12.

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 8:21. And Aaron made an atonement for them — Though the Levites had been most solemnly consecrated to the Lord's service, and though all legal washings and purifications were duly performed on the occasion, yet they could not approach God till an atonement had been made for them. How strange is it, after all these significations, of the will and purpose of God relative to man, that any priest or any people will attempt to draw nigh to God without an atonement! As sure as God hath spoken it, there is no entrance into the holiest but through the blood of Jesus, Hebrews 10:19-20.