Numbers 3

Obadiah honored the Prophet Elijah (1 Kings 18:17). Why did God reckon the tribe of Levi for the firstborn (Numbers 3:12)? Why did he appoint that the prince should ask counsel of God by the priest (Numbers 27:21)?

Hereof the portion allotted to the priests out of various offerings or sacrifices was no small part, wherein the Levites had no interest, but they belonged and were delivered immediately to the priests. (2.) The Levites themselves were given to the priests for their service in a…

For the law of the priesthood took care of nothing more than that no stranger, that was not of the house of Aaron, should be called to that office. See Exodus 29:33, Leviticus 22:10, Numbers 1:51, and Numbers 3:10: Aaron and his sons they shall wait on the priest's office [〈 in…

8. Secondly, The patterns of this among the Jews, and those we know, the more considerable in this, because they were there instituted by God himself, and because many other observances in Christianity are by Christ and the Apostles visibly accommodated from the Jews. And again…

God had bestowed the priesthood on Aaron and his sons, (Exodus 28:1.) The other Levites were set apart to inferior offices, (Numbers 3:9.) David made no change in this respect; but his object was, partly to secure that nothing should be done in tumult and disorder, partly to opp…

The Lord commanded, that all the males should be dedicated to him, in remembrance of their deliverance; because when the angel slew all the first-born of Egypt, (Exodus 12:29,) he had spared the first-born of Israel. "On the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egy…

He rejects the use of the ordinary names to the heathens. And Philastrius makes the usage of them among Christians almost heretical, Num. 3. All the eastern nations also, among whom the planetary denomination of the days of the week first began, have since their casting off that…

(Genesis 44:33): I shall remain pledge (says Reuben) for the lad — [in non-Latin alphabet] in pledge for the lad. (Numbers 3:12): I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn, in stead of the firstborn. So Septuagint, [in non-Latin alphabet].