8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-11)In blessing the tribe of Levi, Moses expresses himself more at large, not so much because it was his own tribe (for he takes no notice of his relation to it) as because it was God’s tribe. The blessing of Levi has reference. I. To the high priest, here called God’s holy one (Deut. 33:8), because his office was holy, in token of which, Holiness to the Lord was written upon his forehead. 1. He seems…
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