28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
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Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; …
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. …
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)Moses, having shown his just indignation against the sin of Israel by breaking the tables and burning the calf, now proceeds to reckon with the sinners and to call them to an account, herein acting as the representative of God, who is not only a holy God, and hates sin, but a just God, and is engaged in honour to punish it, Isa. 59:18. Now, I. He begins with Aaron, as God began with Adam, because…
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