Numbers 18:2
But bring with you also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of the Testimony.
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- joined unto thee
- There is a fine paronomasia in the original. Levi is desired from {lawah,} to join, couple, associate; hence Moses says, the Levites {yillawoo,} "shall be joined," or associated, with the priests: they shall conjointly perform the sacred office, but the priests shall be principal, the Levites their associates or assistants.
- Numbers 18:4; Genesis 29:34
- minister
- Numbers 3:6–9; Numbers 8:19, 22
- but thou
- Numbers 3:10–13; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 16:40; Numbers 17:7; 1 Chronicles 16:39, 40; 2 Chronicles 30:16; Ezekiel 44:15