ThePriefts NUMBERS X V I I I. charge. I07 end their murmuring! : the Greeke tranflateth irk and let their murmuring cafe' from me, and they fball not die. 12 Verf 12. we give up thegholl] or, have given up the ghof, that is,di:d: or,as the Greeke tranl lateth, are confumed.T his may be taken as an unjuf complaint oftheirs, for the punifhments that they had felt, & fhould fill feele for their fines. Or rather , as a ferious complaint of their owne naiferie,being under fin, and fu by the Lawunder punifhment and wrath : like that which the A polite faith , I mas alive withorit the Law once; but when the commandement came, firm revived , and I died; and the commandement which (mar ordained ) unto life, Ifeund (to be) unto deatb, Rom. 7.9,to. The Ghaldee paraphraîeth upon their words, thus; Beheld the (word bath kited fomeofut, and be- holdthe earth bath fmalic:red fore of eu and behold f me of Pt are dead with the pefilence. And Targum Jo- nathan thus; Behold forre of us are confumed with flaming fire , and fame ear are fwallowed up into the earth and perifhed; beholdwe think that as they JO we all frail perifh. Vert. 13. that commeth mere] in Greeke, that toucheth the Tabernacle, Shall we be confirmed in givirtguythe ghof ?] that is, (hall wee die every one? This feemethto be a deprecation; whereby acknowledging their finnes to be worthy of death, they pray for mercy : for f6 quefions are often ufed in earner deprecations; as, Wie thou be angr,yy with 911 for ever? &c.Pfo!.95.6.Wilt thou utterly rejefl ut ? Lam. 5. 2 a. Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afffili its veryfore ? Efay.6 4.1 2, and many the like. 13 ft 42 CHAP. XVIII: r The different charger of the Priers, and of the Levites adjoyned unto them. 9 The Priefts portion of the peoples offrings , and hallowed things; and the of of them. 21 The Levites portion is the tithes ofthe Ifrae lites, butte; inheritance in the land 26 The Leviter muff give unto the Prie fi: the tenth oftheir tithes, at the Lord heave- effring: and the ref( themfelves fhoe d enjg, fir a retì+ardof their[eernie:. r Nd Jehovah Paid uuto Aaron; Thou, and thy fonnes, and thy fathers houle with thee , (hall beare the iniquity of the Sanituary:and thou,and thy formes with thee, (hall beare the iniquity of your Prief- 2 hood. And thy brethren alto, the tribeof Levi the tribe of thy father , bring thou notre with thee, that they may be joyned unto thee, & minifer untothee: but thou,& thy formes with thee, (Iball winger) before 3 the Tent of the Teftimony. And they (hall keepe thy chmge, and the charge of all the Tettt:but they (hall not come nigh unto the veffels ofholine(fe,and unto the Altar; that they die not, both they and you. And they 4 (hall be joyned unto thee, and (hall keep the charge of the Tent ofthe Congregation,for all the fervice of the Tent:& a ftranger (hall not come nigh unto you. And ye frail keep the charge ofthe Holy place, and the charge of the Altar, that there be no fervent wrath any more upon the fonnes of Ifrael. And I,behold I have taken yourbrethren the Le- vites, from among the fonnes of Ifrael : to you they are given sa a gift for Iehovah , to fervethe fervice ofthe Tent of the Congre- gation. And thou and thy föns with thee, (hall keepe your :Pries office for every thing ofthe Altar, and within the voile, and ye (hall ferve : I have given your Priells office, as afervice ofgifl and the franger that commeth nigh, fhall be put to death. And Jehovah fpake unro Aaron ; And I, 8 behold I have given unto thee the charge of mine heave-offrings,ofall the holy things of the fonnes of Ifrael ; unto thee have I given them,forthe anointing,and to thyfons,hy a fatutefar ever. This Thal l be thine, ofthe Holy of Holies,(referved)frö the fire:every oblation oftheirs,ofevery Meat - offering of theirs , and of every Sin-offring of theirs, &of every Trefpafe.o/fringoftheirs,which they (hall render unto me;it (Ball be holy of holyes, for thee and for thy fonnes. In the holy ofholyes fhalt thou eat it: every male (hall eat it; holy (hall it be unto thee. And this fhaa be thine; the heave-óffring of their gift, with all the wave- offrings of the fonnes of lfraèl;unrothee have I given them,and to thy fonnes & to thy daughters with thee,by a fatutefor ever:every cleaneperfon in thine houle (hall eat it. All the fat of the new oile, and all the fat ofthe new wine, and of the corne;the fir(fruits ofthcm,which they (hall give unto Iehovah, them have I given unto thee. The fir(- fruits of all which Asa be in their land, which they (hall bring unto Jehovah, (tall be thine : every cleane perfon in thinehoule (hall eat it. Evety devoted thing in Ifrael (hall be thine. Every thing that openeth the wombe, ofall fell, which they fral bring neer unto Jehovah,of man or of beaf, (hall be thine : but redeeming-thou (halt redeetne the fir(- borneofman;and the firfling ofthe uncleane beaf (halt rhoure- deetne. And thofe their aretoberedeemeaof him,from amoneth old,fhalt thou redeem; by thy eftitriation; fer. the Giver of five fhe- kels,by the fhekel of the Sanetuaty,whichis twenty gerahs. But the firfling of a cow,or the-
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