CHAPTER V. 493 17. Q. Was thereany work which the priests performed in common with the high-priest ? A. All the priests were to teach the people their duty, to assist in judging of civil and religious matters, and bless the people in the name of the Lord; Deut, 8 -13. and xxi. 5. Num. vi. 23-26. Dial. ii. 7. Note. The priests were appointed to give the sense of the law in civil as well as religious concerns, because the same God who was the object of their worship, was also King of their nation. 18. Q. Who were the Nazarites? A. Men or women. of any tribe who separated or devoted themselves to the Lord for a time by a particular vow; Num. vi. 2, 3, 4. 19. Q. What were the rules of a Nazarite's vow or separa- tion ? -A. Be was to drink no wine nor strong liquor, tp come at no dead body, nor to suffer any razor to come upon his head, but let hishair grow all the time, unless he fell under some cere- moniäl defilement; Nunn. vi. 5, 6, 9-12. 20. Q. How were his vows to be finished or ended? A. By shaving his head at the doer of the tabernacle, offering a sa- crifice, and burning his hair in the fire of it; Num. vi. 13, 18. 21. Q. Who were the Levites? A. All the tribe or family of Levi, for they were taken into the service of God insteadof the first-born of all the tribes of Israel, whom God claimed as his own ; Num. iii. 40. and viii. 13 -19. 22. Q. Whydid God claim all the first -born of Israel? A. Because he saved them from the destroying angel when he smote ell the first -born of Egypt ; Nunn. viii. 1i -18. 23. Q. What was thebusiness of the Levites ? A. Towait on the priests in their office, and to do the lower services of the sanctuary or holy place; Num. viii. 19. and iii. 4, 6. 24. Q. Howwere the Levites separated to the service of the sanctuary ? A. By sprinklingwater of purification on them, shaving their flesh, washing their garments, and the people lay- ing their hands on them, as well as by several sacrifices; Num. viii. 9-16. SECT. I11. - -Of the Holy Places, particularly the Tabernacle. 25. Q. Next to the holy persons let us enquire what were the holy places ? A. The tabernacle in the days of Moses, and the temple in the (lays of Solomon, each of which is sometimes called the sanctuary; Ex. xxv. 8. 1 Citron. xxii. 19. 26. Q. What was the tabernacle? A. It was a sort of moveable building made of pillars and boards set in sockets of silver, and fine linen curtains embroidered with cherubs, and coupled with loops and tacks of gold, that the whole might be taken to pieces, and carried with them in their journies ; See Ex. xxvi.
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