Numbers 3:10-12 New English Translation
10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood,[a] but the unauthorized person[b] who comes near must be put to death.”
11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 12 “Look,[c] I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of[d] every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,
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- Numbers 3:10 tc The LXX includes the following words here: “and all things pertaining to the altar and within the veil.” Cf. Num 18:7.
- Numbers 3:10 tn The word is זָר (zar), usually rendered “stranger, foreigner, pagan.” But in this context it simply refers to anyone who is not a Levite or a priest, an unauthorized person or intruder in the tabernacle. That person would be put to death.
- Numbers 3:12 tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here carries its deictic force, calling attention to the fact that is being declared. It is underscoring the fact that the Lord himself chose Levi.
- Numbers 3:12 tn Literally “in the place of.”
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