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**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**said.** See note on [Numbers 3:40](../../../kjv/numbers/3/40) .
**Aaron.** Jehovah "spoke" again to Aaron in [Numbers 18:8](../../../kjv/numbers/18/8) and [Numbers 18:20](../../../kjv/numbers/18/20) .
**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah.* App-44 .

**tribe** = *matteh =* staff.
**Levi . . . joined.** Figure of speech *Paronomasia.* App-6 . Hebrew. *Levi . . . veyillavu.*
**tribe** = *shebet* = rod.
**tabernacle** = tent. Hebrew. *'ohel.* App-40 .

**children** = sons.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**do the service.** Hebrew serve the service. Figure of speech *Polyptoton.* App-6 . perform the solemn service.

**spake.** See note on [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) .
**hallowed** = holy. See note on "holy", [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .
**the anointing.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the priesthood associated with it.

**holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .
**oblation.** Hebrew approach-offering. See App-43 .
**shall be.** Hebrew "it [shall be]".

**wine.** Hebrew. *tirosh.* See App-27 .

**the** = their.

**Every thing.** See [Leviticus 27:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/27/28) .
**devoted.** See note on [Leviticus 27:1](../../../kjv/leviticus/27/1) .

**the matrix.** See [Numbers 3:13](../../../kjv/numbers/3/13) .[Exodus 13:2](../../../kjv/exodus/13/2) ; [Exodus 34:19](../../../kjv/exodus/34/19) . [Leviticus 27:26](../../../kjv/leviticus/27/26) .
**men . . . man** = Hebrew. *'adam* . App-14 .
**redeem.** Hebrew. *padah.* See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) ,

**shekels . . . shekel.** See App-51 .
**which** = it. Compare [Numbers 3:47](../../../kjv/numbers/3/47) . [Exodus 30:13](../../../kjv/exodus/30/13) .[Leviticus 27:25](../../../kjv/leviticus/27/25) .
**gerahs.** See App-51 .

**thou.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Targum of Onkelos, and Syriac, read "but thou".
**burn** = burn as incense. See App-43 .
**sweet savour.** See note on [Leviticus 1:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/9) .

**offer** = heave up as a heave offering. See note on [Exodus 29:27](../../../kjv/exodus/29/27) .
**covenant of salt.** Hebrew covenant = *berith,* from *barah. to cut* ; hence, *to eat.* As salt was scarce and precious. and used with all eating, so it was put, by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for eating, just as the breaking of bread was. See [Isaiah 58:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/58/7) (Authorized Version "deal"); [Jeremiah 16:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/16/7) (Authorized Version "tear"). [Lamentations 4:4](../../../kjv/lamentations/4/4) .[Ezekiel 18:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/7) (Authorized Version "given"). Hence, when wages were paid in kind, by finding the worker in food, "salt" was put (by Figure of speech *Metonymy)* for wages generally; so that a worker was spoken of as being worth, or not worth, his "salt". "A covenant of salt" was therefore a covenant made by sacrifice, which was first *cut* in two ([Genesis 15:10-18](../../../kjv/genesis/15/10-18) . [Jeremiah 34:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/18) , [Jeremiah 34:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/34/19) ) and then eaten, thus solemnizing an inviolable covenant.

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