Numbers 8 · Verse 15

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.
Numbers 8:15, King James Version

Numbers 8:15 in other translations

BSBAfter you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.
WEB“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.
ASVAnd after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.
YLTand afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them--a wave-offering.
DARBYAnd afterwards shall the Levites come in to do the service of the tent of meeting. And thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them as a wave-offering.
BBEAfter that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.
WebsterAnd after that shall the Levites go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

What does Numbers 8:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. after that, shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation--into the court, to assist the priests; and at removal into the tabernacle--that is, into the door of it--to receive the covered furniture.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 8:5-26

Here we have directions for the solemn ordination of the Levites. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they were distinguished from others. All who are employed for God, must be dedicated to him, according to the employment. Christians must be baptized, ministers must be ordained; we must first give ourselves unto the Lord, and then…

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Numbers 8:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאַֽחֲרֵי\־ve.'a.cha.rei-and afterH310
כֵן֙khenthusH3651
יָבֹ֣אוּya.Vo.'uthey will goH935
הַלְוִיִּ֔םhal.vi.Yimthe LevitesH3881
לַעֲבֹ֖דla.'a.Vodto serveH5647
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
אֹ֣הֶל'O.hel[the] tent ofH168
מוֹעֵ֑דmo.'EdmeetingH4150
וְטִֽהַרְתָּ֣ve.ti.har.Taand you will purifyH2891
אֹתָ֔ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853
וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥ve.he.naf.Taand you will waveH5130
אֹתָ֖ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853
תְּנוּפָֽה\׃te.nu.Faha wave-offeringH8573

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 8:15

  • Numbers 8:11

    And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord.

  • Numbers 8:13

    And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:1-32

    So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges: …

  • Numbers 4:3-32

    From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. …

  • Numbers 3:12

    And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

  • Numbers 3:23-37

    The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof. …

  • 1 Chronicles 25:1-26

    Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord. Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti–ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: …

  • Exodus 29:24

    And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
go in.
11; 3:23-37; 4:3-32; 1Ch 23:1-32; 25:1-26:32
and offer.
11,13; 3:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 8:14

    Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

  • 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.

  • Numbers 8:16

    For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

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Numbers 8:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y después de eso vendrán los Levitas á ministrar en el tabernáculo del testimonio: los expiarás pues, y los ofrecerás en ofrenda.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		– Après cela les Lévites viendront pour faire le service de la tente d’assignation, et tu les purifieras, et tu les offriras en offrande tournoyée;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und danach sollen die Leviten kommen, um das Zelt der Zusammenkunft zu bedienen. So sollst du sie reinigen und sie als Webopfer weben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et postea ingredientur tabernaculum fœderis, ut serviant mihi. Sicque purificabis et consecrabis eos in oblationem Domini: quoniam dono donati sunt mihi a filiis Israël.