Numbers 8:7

Translations

Modern

This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Traditional

And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

Literal

Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle on them waters of purification, and let a razor pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes and make themselves clean.

Latin

…juxta hunc ritum: aspergantur aqua lustrationis, et radant omnes pilos carnis suæ. Cumque laverint vestimenta sua, et mundati fuerint,

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English

This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Notes

Numbers 8:7

The ceremony to make the Levites ceremonially clean involved sprinkling with water, shaving all hair, and wearing clean clothes. This was similar to ceremonies for cleansing from ceremonial impurity.
water of purification: This phrase appears only here. The sprinkling symbolized washing away sin and had symbolic importance similar to later Jewish washings and Christian baptism. This water might have been the same as the mixture with ashes from the red heifer that removed sin (see 19:9; also Hebrews 9:13).
Shaving their entire body was also part of being declared ceremonially clean from the ceremonial impurity of polluting diseases (Leviticus 14:8).
Washing clothes was part of all cleansing from ceremonial impurity (for example, Leviticus 15:5–27).

Numbers 8:5–22

The Lord gave instructions for the dedication and cleansing of the Levites. The Levites were set apart to serve in the tabernacle.

Related verses

Numbers 19:7–10
Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Leviticus 8:6
Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
Numbers 19:13
Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
Numbers 31:20
And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”
Leviticus 16:28
The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
Leviticus 15:10–11
Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Revelation 7:14
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Psalm 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Leviticus 15:27
Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Hebrews 9:10
They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
Isaiah 52:15
…so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
1 Peter 3:21
And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Cattle Deuteronomy, Book of Numbers, Book of Razor

Topics

Levites: Consecration of Purification: Scriptures Relating To Purifications or Baptisms of Levites Before Consecration Sprinkling of Water The Levites: Ceremonies at Consecration of Cleansing and Purifying

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