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Numbers 8:12
New English Translation
Numbers 8:12
New English Translation
12 When[a] the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer[b] the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord,[c] to make atonement for the Levites.
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- Numbers 8:12 tn The clause begins with a vav (ו) on the noun “the Levites,” indicating a disjunctive clause. Here it is clearly a subordinate clause prior to the instruction for Moses, and so translated as a circumstantial clause of time.
- Numbers 8:12 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals.
- Numbers 8:12 sn The “purification offering” cleansed the tabernacle from impurity, and the burnt offering atoned by nullifying and removing the effects of sin in the Levites.
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