offered] Heb. lifted them up. The word is the same which is used of lifting up of oblations, Exodus 29:28. and it may be the ceremonie was the same; at least the Levites were set up in eminent view, that all might see them when they entered upon their function, which it may be they did not all at once, at the first consecration of them, but so many as the service of the Tabernacle for the present required.