Bilangan 8:15

8:15 “After this, the Levites will go in ¹  to do the work ²  of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them ³  and offer them like a wave offering. ⁴ 

Bilangan 8:25

8:25 and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

Bilangan 9:19

9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions ⁵  of the Lord and did not journey.

Bilangan 18:27

18:27 And your raised offering will be credited ⁶  to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine ⁷  from the winepress.

Bilangan 31:29

31:29 You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

[8:15]  ¹ tn The imperfect tense could also be given the nuance of the imperfect of permission: “the Levites may go in.”

[8:15]  ² tn Heb “to serve.”

[8:15]  ³ tn The two verbs in the rest of this verse are perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutive constructions, making them equal to the imperfect. Some commentators try to get around the difficulty of repetition by making these future perfects, “and you will have cleansed,” as opposed to a summary statement, “for thus you will cleanse….”

[8:15]  ⁴ tc The Greek text adds “before the Lord.”

[9:19]  ⁵ tn This is the same Hebrew expression that was used earlier for the Levites “keeping their charge” or more clearly, “fulfilling their obligations” to take care of the needs of the people and the sanctuary. It is a general expression using שָׁמַר (shamar) followed by its cognate noun מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mishmeret).

[18:27]  ⁶ tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.

[18:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.