Leviticus 8 - Introduction
_MOSES CONSECRATETH AARON AND HIS SONS: THEIR SIN-OFFERING; THEIR BURNT-OFFERING: THE RAM OF CONSECRATION: THE PLACE AND TIME OF THEIR CONSECRATION._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOSES CONSECRATETH AARON AND HIS SONS: THEIR SIN-OFFERING; THEIR BURNT-OFFERING: THE RAM OF CONSECRATION: THE PLACE AND TIME OF THEIR CONSECRATION._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING— All necessary directions being now given concerning the sacrifices, Moses proceeds, by the command of God, to consecrate Aaron and his sons, according to the method enjoined heretofore in the book of Exodus. As we have there spoken fully of these ceremonies, it... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED HIM, &C.— Aaron and his sons are consecrated. The people are called to the door of the tabernacle to grace the solemnity, and by their prayers to implore the Divine benediction. Moses, according to God's directions, proceeds in the consecration: he first washes th... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BROUGHT THE BULLOCK FOR THE SIN-OFFERING, &C.— They who were to offer sacrifice for the sins of others, first needed to make atonement for their own. Nothing fits a minister to deal with wounded consciences, or engages him to have compassion on the tempted, so much as an humbling sense of his own... [ Continue Reading ]
AS I COMMANDED— Houbigant renders this, _for so it is commanded me;_ in which he follows the LXX, and most versions. It is certain that we read of no such command as this before given to Aaron, and therefore this translation seems more proper than ours.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL NOT GO OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE— Houbigant renders this very properly, _Ye shall not depart from the door of the tabernacle for seven_ days; for it was at the door that the consecration was performed, Leviticus 8:3; Leviticus 8:31; Leviticus 8:35. Houbigant renders the 34th verse,... [ Continue Reading ]