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**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**spake.** See note on [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) .

**the** = the face of the.
**candlestick** = light-holder (as in [Genesis 1:14](../../../kjv/genesis/1/14) ), or lampstand. Compare [Exodus 25:31-39](../../../kjv/exodus/25/31-39) ; [Exodus 37:17-24](../../../kjv/exodus/37/17-24) .

**as** = according as.

**unto.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Onkelos Manuscript, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "and unto".

**children** = sons.

**water of purifying** = sin water: i.e., water prepared as in [Numbers 19](../../../kjv/numbers/19) .

**meat offering.** See App-43 .
**sin offering.** See App-43 .

**tabernacle of the congregation** = tent of meeting. App-40 .

**offer.** Hebrew wave. See note on [Exodus 29:27](../../../kjv/exodus/29/27) .
**offering.** Hebrew wave offering. See App-43 .
**execute the service.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ). Hebrew "serve the service" = perform the solemn service.

**the Levites.** Figure of speech *Epanadiplosis* ( App-6 ), the verse beginning and ending with the same word.
**offer** = prepare. Hebrew. *'asah.* App-43 .
**atonement.** See note on [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) .

**Mine.** Compare [Numbers 3:45](../../../kjv/numbers/3/45) .

**offer them for an offering** = wave them for a wave offering. See [Exodus 29:27](../../../kjv/exodus/29/27) .

**For.** Compare [Exodus 13:2](../../../kjv/exodus/13/2) .[Exodus 3:13](../../../kjv/exodus/3/13) .
**man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* See App-14 .
**on the day.** See App-18 .

**as** = according as.

**twenty and five years old.** This was the commencement of a five years' probation. The age, thirty, was the age of their numbering. See note on [Numbers 4:3](../../../kjv/numbers/4/3) .
**to wait, &c.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ), as in verses: [Numbers 8:11](../../../kjv/numbers/8/11) , [Numbers 8:15](../../../kjv/numbers/8/15) , [Numbers 8:19](../../../kjv/numbers/8/19) . Literally war the warfare.

**from the age, &c.** Observe the gracious care of Jehovah.

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