Num. 8:9

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thou shalt bring.

Exod 29:4-37; Exod 40:12

shalt gather the whole.The words, {kol �ath,} which are rendered "the whole assembly," often signify all the elders, or principal persons in the several tribes. (Nu 15:4; 25:7; 35:12.)

And they cannot well have any other sense here; for it would be impossible for all the children of Israel to put their hands on the Levites, as stated in the next verse.

Le 8:3