Leviticus 8 - Introduction
Leviticus 8; Leviticus 9; Leviticus 10: The Service of the Sancuary Inaugurated This is the only historical portion of the Book of Leviticus, with the exception of Leviticus 24:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Leviticus 8; Leviticus 9; Leviticus 10: The Service of the Sancuary Inaugurated This is the only historical portion of the Book of Leviticus, with the exception of Leviticus 24:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
A BULLOCK ... TWO RAMS ... A BASKET - compare Exodus 29:1. This shows the coherence of this part of Leviticus with the latter part of Exodus. The basket of unleavened bread used on this occasion appears to have contained: (1) cakes or loaves of the ordinary unleavened bread; (2) cakes of oiled bre... [ Continue Reading ]
GATHER ... - Rather, gather all the assembly together toward the entrance of the tent of meeting. See Leviticus 4:13. The whole body of the people were summoned on this occasion, and the elders probably occupied the first places. The elders are especially called together in an unequivocal manner to... [ Continue Reading ]
WASHED THEM WITH WATER - Moses caused them to bathe entirely (compare Leviticus 16:4), not merely to wash their hands and feet, as they were to do in their daily ministrations. See the marginal reference. This bathing, which the high priest had also to go through on the day of atonement, was symboli... [ Continue Reading ]
See the notes at Exodus 28. Leviticus 8:9 THE HOLY CROWN - The golden plate of the mitre was so called as the distinctive badge of the high priest’s consecration. See Leviticus 21:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses first anointed with the holy oil Exodus 30:25 the tabernacle and all therein, that is, the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, the candlestick and the golden altar, with all the articles that belonged to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPRINKLED ... THE ALTAR SEVEN TIMES - The altar of burnt-offering was distinguished by this sevenfold sprinkling with the holy oil. The number of the covenant was thus brought into connection with those acts of sacrifice by which the covenant between Yahweh and the worshipper was formally renewed an... [ Continue Reading ]
As investing the priest with official garments was a recognition before men of the official position of the person (see Exodus 28:3 note), so the anointing him with oil was an acknowledgment that all fitness for his office, all the powers with which he would rightly fulfill its duties, must come fro... [ Continue Reading ]
AARON’S SONS - The common priests. Nothing is said here, or in Exodus 29:7, of the anointing of the common priests, though it is expressly commanded in Exodus 28:41; Exodus 40:15, and is evidently implied as a fact in Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:7; Numbers 3:3. It would seem that the anointing of t... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses as the mediator of the covenant of the Law Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 8:6 was called to perform the priestly functions, in consecrating those on whom henceforth those functions were to devolve, and in inaugurating the legal order of sacrifices. See Exodus 40:23 note. The sin-offering was now offe... [ Continue Reading ]