Leviticus 8
Leviticus 8:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 8:2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the clothes and the anointing oil and the bull of the failure offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.
Leviticus 8:3 And collect[1] all the congregation at the entrance of the conference tent.”
Leviticus 8:4 And Moses did as Yahveh commanded him, and the congregation collected at the entrance of the conference tent.
Leviticus 8:5 And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that Yahveh commanded to be done.”
Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
Leviticus 8:7 And he put the shirt on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band.
Leviticus 8:8 And he placed the breast piece on him, and in the sacred pouch[2] he put the Lights and the Darks. [3]
Leviticus 8:9 And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its face, he set the golden plate, the sacred badge, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and consecrated them.
Leviticus 8:11 And he spritzed some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Leviticus 8:12 And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Leviticus 8:13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons and clothed them with shirts and tied sashes around their waists and wrapped headbands around them, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:14 Then he brought the bull of the failure offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the failure offering.
Leviticus 8:15 And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to provide reconciliation upon it.
Leviticus 8:16 And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.
Leviticus 8:17 But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:18 Then he presented the ram of the ascending offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:19 And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 8:20 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.
Leviticus 8:21 He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was an ascending offering with a pacifying aroma, a fire offering for Yahveh, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:22 Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:23 And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 8:24 Then he presented Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 8:25 Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh,
Leviticus 8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was to Yahveh’s face he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh.
Leviticus 8:27 And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 8:28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the ascending offering. This was an ordination offering with a pacifying aroma, a fire offering to Yahveh.
Leviticus 8:29 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering to Yahveh’s face. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and spritzed it on Aaron and his clothes, and also on his sons and his sons’ clothes. So, he consecrated Aaron and his clothes, and his sons and his sons’ clothes with him.
Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance of the conference tent, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, when I said, ‘Aaron and his sons will eat it.’
Leviticus 8:32 And what remains of the meat and the bread you will burn up with fire.
Leviticus 8:33 And you will not go outside the entrance of the conference tent for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.
Leviticus 8:34 As has been done today, Yahveh has commanded to be done to provide reconciliation for you.
Leviticus 8:35 At the entrance of the conference tent you will stay day and night for seven days, performing what Yahveh has charged, so that you do not die, because so I have been commanded.”
Leviticus 8:36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things that Yahveh commanded by Moses.
[1] קָהַל = collect. Leviticus 8:3, 4.
[2] חשֶׁן = sacred pouch. Leviticus 8:8.
[3] אֶת־הָאוּרִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַתֻּמִּֽים= Lights and Darks. Leviticus 8:8.
Leviticus 8 quotes:
“The modern reader can better appreciate this section by associating it with lived experience. Life stages bring so-called “rites of passage” to which all can relate in some way: birthdays, receiving sacraments, graduations, becoming parents or grandparents. Ordinations and other calls to ministry characterize modern faith as much as they did for the readers of Leviticus 8-10. Being called, consecrated, instructed in proper service, and embracing moral living remain perpetual values.”
Owens, J. Edward. Leviticus. Liturgical Press, 2011. p. 29.
“In Leviticus 8:1—10:20 the Aaronic family is ordained to be priests in Israel, sacrificial worship is inaugurated in the Tabernacle through Aaron’s ministry, and the first problem in the conduct of the priesthood emerges in the sin of Nadab and Abihu.”
Mays, James Luther. The Book of Leviticus : The Book of Numbers. John Knox Press, 1963. p. 38.
“In Leviticus 8:10-12, Moses anointed Aaron and the tabernacle. This was done with a special oil that no one was to duplicate in the camp, nor was it to be used on anyone but a priest (Ex. 30:22—33). In Scripture, oil is often a symbol of the Spirit of God who has anointed each believer (2 Cor. 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27; see Ps. 133).”
Wiersbe, Warren W. Leviticus : Becoming “Set Apart” for God. First edition, David C Cook, 2015. p. 33.
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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, April 2, 2021
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