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    Leviticus 8

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    The ordination is wonderfully particular: blood is placed on Aaron’s right earlobe, right thumb, and right big toe, then the same three spots are marked on every son.

    Garments, oil, and a very public beginningvv. 1–13

    The LORD orders Moses to bring Aaron, his sons, their garments, the oil, the animals, and the bread, then gather the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Moses washes Aaron, dresses him piece by piece, fits the breastpiece with the Urim and Thummim, and sets the holy diadem on his turban. Oil is poured over the tabernacle, its furnishings, the altar, and finally Aaron’s head; the sons receive their tunics, sashes, and headbands. It is a ceremony with a large audience and an impressive quantity of wardrobe.

    Blood, bread, and the waving of borrowed foodvv. 14–30

    The bull is brought forward, hands are laid on its head, and Moses purifies the altar with its blood, while the unwanted remainder is burned outside the camp. A ram follows as a burnt offering. Then comes the ram of ordination, whose blood visits the right earlobe, right thumb, and right big toe of Aaron and each son. Fat, the right thigh, and three pieces from the basket are placed into their hands and waved before the LORD; Moses promptly takes them back and burns them. He keeps the breast as his portion, then sprinkles oil and altar blood over Aaron, his garments, his sons, and theirs.

    Seven days at the entrancevv. 31–36

    Moses tells Aaron and his sons to boil and eat the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting with the bread, and to burn whatever remains. They must not leave that entrance for seven days, day or night, while the ordination is completed; the warning is stark enough to include death. Aaron and his sons do everything the LORD commanded through Moses, which is a remarkably tidy ending after all that blood, oil, bread, waving, and burning.

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    1. Lev 8:1Then the LORD said to Moses,

    2. Lev 8:2“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

    3. Lev 8:3and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

    4. Lev 8:4So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    5. Lev 8:5And Moses said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”

    6. Lev 8:6Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

    7. Lev 8:7He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

    8. Lev 8:8Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.

    9. Lev 8:9Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.

    10. Lev 8:10Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he consecrated them.

    11. Lev 8:11He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

    12. Lev 8:12He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

    13. Lev 8:13Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them, and tied headbands on them, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    14. Lev 8:14Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

    15. Lev 8:15Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

    16. Lev 8:16Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar.

    17. Lev 8:17But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

    18. Lev 8:18Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

    19. Lev 8:19Moses slaughtered the ram and splattered the blood on all sides of the altar.

    20. Lev 8:20He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.

    21. Lev 8:21He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    22. Lev 8:22After that, Moses presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

    23. Lev 8:23Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

    24. Lev 8:24Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he splattered the blood on all sides of the altar.

    25. Lev 8:25And Moses took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.

    26. Lev 8:26And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

    27. Lev 8:27He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave offering.

    28. Lev 8:28Then Moses took these from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

    29. Lev 8:29He also took the breast—Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.

    30. Lev 8:30Next, Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well as Aaron’s sons and their garments.

    31. Lev 8:31And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

    32. Lev 8:32Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.

    33. Lev 8:33You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

    34. Lev 8:34What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.

    35. Lev 8:35You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

    36. Lev 8:36So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

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    • 12Exodus 30:30Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests.
    • 12Psalms 133:2It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.
    • 14Ezekiel 43:19You are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the Lord GOD.
    • 17Leviticus 4:11–12But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
    • 22Leviticus 8:2“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
    • 15Leviticus 4:7The priest must then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
    • 34Hebrews 7:27Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
    • 35Numbers 9:19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.
    • 35Deuteronomy 11:1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
    • 351 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
    • 35Numbers 3:7They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.
    • 36Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
    • 6Ephesians 5:26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
    • 61 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
    • 6Exodus 29:4Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
    • 7Exodus 28:4These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.

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