Levites Revisited, Again

Reading:   Numbers 8

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!*

*And my sincerest apologies to all the pagans out there who would like to see St. Patrick burned at a stake for what he did to their Celtic ancestors...

In this chapter the Levites are set apart as a gift to Aaron and the priests.  They are, again, claimed as God's in place of the firstborn of all man and beast and are given the task of tending to the temporal disposition of the tabernacle (carrying it, setting it up, protecting it, etc.).

NUMBERS 8:19

19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. 

Don't know what else to say on this one today...kind of at a loss...

~Kipling