3. Host, tzava, as in verses 23, 30, etc.; see Ex. 38:8, and 1 Sam. 2:22, tza-va (to assemble by troops); but in Num. 8:25, it should be "service" as in verse 23 of this chapter.
14, for "censers" read "shovels" or "pans," it is from kha-thah (to remove), as ya-im (shovels) from ya-ga to take away. Which was shovel and which was pan I cannot say, but I apprehend the first were shovels, and the second pans, from the analogy of the word.
Note.—The laver is not found in the vessels carried in the desert, and covered with different cloths, and the reason is, I think, evident, and confirms the sense I judge to be that of these ordinances. The laver though a means of approach, was no manifestation of the divine character which produced a corresponding result in the believer; it was merely a means of the purification of man needed in his drawing nigh to God.