Numbers Chapter 4

Numbers 4  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 9
3. Host, tzava, as in verses 23, 30, etc.; see Ex. 38:8,8And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. (Exodus 38:8) and 1 Sam. 2:22,22Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. (1 Samuel 2:22) tza-va (to assemble by troops); but in Num. 8:25,25And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: (Numbers 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.