Numbers 8:9
Bring the Levites before the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel.
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thou shalt bring
- Exodus 29:4–37; Exodus 40:12
- shalt gather the whole
- The words, {kol âdath,} which are rendered "the whole assembly," often signify all the elders, or principal persons in the several tribes. (ch. 15:4; 25:7; 35:12.) And they cannot well have any other sense here; for it would be impossible for all the children of Israel to put their hands on the Levites, as stated in the next verse.
- Leviticus 8:3