Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 8:15
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering.
The Levites go in, to wit, into the court, where they were to wait upon the priests at the altar of burnt-offering; and, at present, into the tabernacle, to take it down and set it up.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. after that, shall the Levites goin to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregationintothe court, to assist the priests; and at removal into thetabernaclethat is, into the door of itto receive the coveredfurniture.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And after that shall the Levites go in,…. Not into the sanctuary, where only the priests entered, much less into the most holy place, where only the high priest went, and that but once a year, in neither of which places the Levites had anything to do, but into the court of the tabernacle:
to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: to watch there, and to assist the priests at the altar of burnt offering, to take down the tabernacle and bear the vessels of it, and set it up, as occasion required:
and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering; cleanse them by sprinkling the water of purifying on them, and offer them by waving them as before; and indeed this is no new thing which is here observed, but what was already done, and therefore should be rendered, “when thou shalt have cleansed them”, or “after thou hast cleansed them”, &c. and so the particle “vau” is sometimes used t.
t See Noldius, p. 289, 290, 299.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 15-19:
This is confirmation and implementation of prior instructions,
Nu 3:5-13. Jehovah designated the Levites as the redemptive surety for the firstborn of Israel. For the law of the firstborn, see Ex 13:1, 11-16; Le 27:26-29.
Proper fulfillment of the firstborn law meant that there would be no plague of Divine judgment upon Israel when the Levites ministered in the Tabernacle service.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(15) And after that shall the Levites go in . . . i.e., into the court of the Tabernacle to keep watch there, and to assist the priests at the altar of burnt-offering, and to take down and set up the Tabernacle as occasion might require.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
offer them for an offering = wave them for a wave offering. See Exo 29:27.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
go in: Num 8:11, Num 3:23-37, Num 4:3-32, 1Ch 23:1-32, 1Ch 25:1 – 1Ch 26:32
and offer: Num 8:11, Num 8:13, Num 3:12
Reciprocal: Num 3:7 – to do the Num 8:21 – offered Num 8:22 – after that 2Ch 29:34 – their brethren Mal 2:5 – covenant