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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

of the tribe of Levi. So TEV has the priests, since “the Levitical priest” implies that there were priests who were not Levites (but see TEV in 8:33). It is important in translation not to convey the false notion that some priests were not Levites, as “the Levitical priests” might suggest. The Hebrew is in fact literally “the priests, the Levites,” in which “the Levites” is an appositional. The term was important to the final editor of the Joshua text, but it is quite capable of being misunderstood
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