88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.

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89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with || him, then he heard the Voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

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The age and time of their service.

12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.

13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.

14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.

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15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and " offer them for an offering.

Before CHRIST 1490.

1 Exod. 29. 10.

mch. 3. 45. & 16. 9.

16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. 17 For all the firstborn of the chil-P Exod. 13. 2, dren of Israel are mine, both man and beast on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

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18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

12, 13, 15. ch. 3. 13. Luke 2. 23.

9 ch. 3. 9.

19 And I have given the Levites as ta gift to Aaron and to his sons from +Heb. given. among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

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20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

ch. 1. 53. & 16.46. & 18.5.

2 Chron. 26.

16.

* ver. 11, 12.

21 And the Levites were purified, ver. 7. and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

The blessing of Moses.

Before CHRIST 1490.

+ Heb. These.

4 ch. 2. 34,

Exod. 2. 18.

f Gen. 12. 7.

Judg. 1. 16.
& 4. 11.

h Gen. 32. 12. Exod. 3.8. & 6. 7, 8.

i Job 29. 15.

* Judg. 1. 16.

I See Exod. 3. 1.

33 And they departed from 'the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD 'went before them in the three days' Josh. 3,3,4,6. journey, to search out a resting place for them.

Deut. 1. 33.

132. 8.

Jer. 31. 2.
Ezek. 20. 6.

Exod. 13.21.
Neh.9.12,19.

• Ps. 68. 1, 2. & 132. 8.

+Heb. ten thousand thousands.

a Deut. 9. 22.

|| Or, were as

it were complainers.

+ Heb. it was

evil in the

ears of, &c. b Ps. 78. 21.

© Lev. 10. 2.

ch. 16. 35.

2 Kings 1.

12.

Ps. 106, 18.

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34 And "the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

36 And when it rested, he said, Re† turn, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.

Moses complaineth of his charge.

burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them tfell a lusting: and the children of Israel also † wept again, and said, 'Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

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6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

Before CHRIST 1490.

d Jam. 5. 16. + Heb. sunk.

That is, 4 burning. Deut. 9. 22.

As Exod.12. 38.

+ Heb. lusted a lust. + Heb. returned and wept.

Ps. 78. 18. & 106. 14.

1 Cor. 10. 6. Exod. 16. 3.

h ch. 21. 5.

i Exod. 16. 14, 31.

7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the † colour thereof as the colour + Heb. eye of of k bdellium.

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and 'the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

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it as the eye

of.

* Gen. 2, 12.

1 Exod. 16 31.

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14.

9 And when the dew fell upon the Exod. 16.13, camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent and "the anger of Ps. 78. 21. the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou 'swarest unto their fathers?

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4 Exod. 16.7.

e ver. 5. Acts 7. 39.

! Ps. 78. 29. & 106. 15.

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18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

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19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20 But even a + Heb month it come out at your

of days.

8 ch. 21. 5.

▲ Gen. 12. 2. Exod. 12.37. & 38, 26.

ch. 1. 46.

I See 2 Kings 7.2.

Matt. 15. 33.
Mark 8. 4.

whole month, until nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

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21 And Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

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22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall John G. 7,9. all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

6.

" ver. 17.

ch. 12. 5.

* See 2 Kings

2. 15.

P See 1 Sam. 10, 5, 6,10. & 19. 20, 21, 23. Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17, 18.

1 Cor. 14. 1, &c.

See 1 Sam.

20. 26.

Jer. 36. 5.

24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders

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31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, t as it were a day's journey on this side,+Heb. as it and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten" homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD Smote the people with a very great plague.

34 And he called the name of that place || Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

the tabernacle.

25 And the LORD "came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

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were the way of a day.

Exod. 16.36. Ezek. 45.11.

* Ps. 78. 30,31.

graves of lust. Deut. 9. 22. y ch. 33. 17.

+ Heb. they were in, &c.

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And they

Mic. 6. 4.

e Gen. 29. 33.

ch. 11. 1.

2 Kings 19.

4.

Isai. 37. 4.

Ezek. 35.12,

13.

• Ps. 76. 9.