And 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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Gill's Exposition
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him,.... Which some understand of the high priests who were of this tribe, and according to the law were not to defile themselves, or mourn…
Barnes' Notes
Thy holy one - i. e., Levi, regarded as the representative of the whole priestly and Levitical stock which sprang from him. The contrast between the tone of this passage and that of Gen 49:5-7 is…
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…
Cambridge Bible
8 And of Levi he said:
Give Leví Thy Thummím,
Thine Urím to the man of Thy grace,
Whom Thou didst prove at Probation
And strive with (?) at Waters-of-Strife;
9 Who said of his father and…
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