NUMBERS - CHAPTER 4
NUMBERS - CHAPTER 4
— 3. Host, tzava, as in verses 23, 30, etc.; see Exodus 38:8, and 1 Samuel 2:22, tza-va (to assemble by troops); but in Numbers 8:25, it should be “service” as in verse 23 of this chapter.
— 14, for “censers” read “shovels” or “pans”, it is from kha-thah (to remove), as ya-im (shovels) from ya-ga to take away. Which was shovel and which was pan I cannot say, but I apprehend the first were shovels, and the second pans, from the analogy of the word.
NOTE. — The laver is not found in the vessels carried in the desert, and covered with different cloths, and the reason is, I think, evident, and confirms the sense I judge to be that of these ordinances. The laver, though a means of approach, was no manifestation of the divine character which produced a corresponding result in the believer; it was merely a means of the purification of man needed in his drawing nigh to God.