“And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?”
They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, 'You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with all of them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?' — the rhetoric 'you have gone too far' (rav-lachem) inverts the covenant structure: if all Israel is holy (kodesh), then priestly distinction is illegitimate. The claim that 'the LORD is with all of them' attempts to democratize God's presence, denying the unique mediation through Moses and Aaron.
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