Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 8:9

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9, 10. thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together, c.—As it was plainly impossible that the whole multitude of the Israelites could do this, a select portion of them must be meant. This party, who laid their hands upon the Levites, are supposed by some to have been the first-born, who by that act, transferred their peculiar privilege of acting as God's ministers to the Levitical tribe and by others, to have been the princes, who thus blessed them. It appears, from this passage, that the imposition of hands was a ceremony used in consecrating persons to holy offices in the ancient, as, from the example of our Lord and His apostles, it has been perpetuated in the Christian Church. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-11" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-num-8-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/num-8-9

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological