Levites, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Numbers 3:12 OT

  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,

• Numbers 3:13 OT

  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

• Numbers 3:40-45 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children…

• Numbers 8:16-18 OT

  For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me. For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine,…

• Exodus 32:26-28 OT

  then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his…

• Deuteronomy 33:9 OT

  He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

• Deuteronomy 33:10 OT

  They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

• Numbers 8:24 OT

  “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

• Numbers 4:3 OT

  from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 4:23-49 OT

  you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing…

• Numbers 8:25 OT

  and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,

• Numbers 8:26 OT

  but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”

• Numbers 8:7 OT

  You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

• Numbers 8:8 OT

  Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

• Numbers 8:12 OT

  “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

• Numbers 8:9 OT

  You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 8:10 OT

  You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

• Numbers 8:11 OT

  and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

• Numbers 8:15 OT

  “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

• Numbers 8:13 OT

  You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

• Numbers 3:9 OT

  You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 8:19 OT

  I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no…

• Numbers 1:50 OT

  but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around…

• Numbers 1:52 OT

  The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.