Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Numbers 16:3
Ye take too much upon you - The original is simply rab lachem , too much for you. The spirit of this saying appears to me to be the following: - "Holy offices are not equally distributed: you arrogate to yourselves the most important ones, as if your superior holiness entitled you alone to them; whereas all the congregation are holy, and have an equal right with you to be employed in the most holy services." Moses retorts this saying Numbers 16:7 : Ye take too much upon you, rab lachem ; Ye have too much already, ye sons of Levi; i.e., by your present spirit and disposition you Proverbs yourselves to be wholly unworthy of any spiritual employment.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Numbers 16:3:
Deuteronomy 33:6
1 Chronicles 6:22
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