Leviticus · Free Bible Version
Leviticus 8 Free Bible Version
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1 The Lord told Moses,
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Go with Aaron and his sons, and take their priestly clothes, anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, two rams, and the basket of bread made without yeast,
2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
3 and have everyone assemble at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”
3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
4 Moses did as the Lord instructed him, and everyone gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
5 Moses told them, “The following is what the Lord has ordered to be done.”
5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.”
6 Moses had Aaron and his sons come forward, and he washed them with water.
6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
7 He dressed Aaron with the tunic, tied the sash around him, put the robe on him and then the ephod. He tied the waistband of the ephod around him, fastening it to him.
7 He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.
8 Then Moses attached the breastpiece to Aaron and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.
8 He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.
9 He put the turban on Aaron's head and placed the gold plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as the Lord had instructed him to do.
9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything in it to dedicate it all.
10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times to anoint it and all its utensils, as well as the basin with its stand to dedicate them.
11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
12 Moses poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head to anoint him and to dedicate him.
12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 Then Moses had Aaron's sons come forward. He dressed them in tunics, tied sashes around them, and wrapped headbands on them, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
14 Moses brought the bull over for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
15 Moses killed the bull and took some of the blood. He used his finger to put the blood on all four horns of the altar to dedicate it and purify it. He poured out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar, and consecrated the altar so that it could be used to make people right.
15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
16 Moses took all the fat that covers the insides, the best part of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, burned all of it on the altar.
16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.
17 But the rest of the bull—the skin, the meat, and the waste he burned outside the camp, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
18 Moses brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
19 Moses killed the ram and sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
20 He divided the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.
20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
21 He washed the insides and legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering to be accepted by the Lord, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.
21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
22 Moses brought the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
23 Moses killed the ram and took some of its blood. He put it on Aaron's right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
24 Then Moses had Aaron and his sons come forward 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 sprinkled blood on all sides of the altar.
24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
25 Moses took the fat, including the fat tail, all the fat on the insides, the best part of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them. Moses took the fat, together with the right thigh.
25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
26 He took one loaf of bread without yeast, one loaf made with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread without yeast that was in the presence of the Lord. He placed them on top of the portions of fat and on the right thigh.
26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
27 Then he gave them to Aaron and his sons, and waved them before the Lord as a wave offering.
27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
28 After this Moses took them back and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a food offering to be accepted by the Lord.
28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29 Moses then took the breast, his share of the ordination ram, and waved it before the Lord as a wave offering, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
30 Moses then took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar. He sprinkled them both on the clothes of Aaron and his sons. This is how he dedicated the clothes of Aaron and his sons.
30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
31 Moses told Aaron and his sons, “You are to boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and then eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of offerings for the ordination, as I ordered: ‘It is for Aaron and his sons to eat.’
31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
32 Afterwards you must burn what's left over of the meat and bread.
32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
33 You are not to leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days until the ordination ceremony is completed, because your ordination will take seven days.
33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
34 What was done today was ordered by the Lord as a means of making you right.
34 What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
35 You must stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, day and night, and follow the Lord's commands so that you will not die, for this is what I have been ordered to do.”
35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”
36 Aaron and his sons did everything that the Lord had ordered through Moses.
36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Exodus 28:2–4; Exodus 40:12–15; Exodus 39:1–31; Exodus 28:40–29:4; Exodus 39:41
- 3 2 Chronicles 30:13; Acts 2:1; 2 Chronicles 30:25; Nehemiah 8:1; 1 Chronicles 15:3
- 4 Leviticus 8:29; Deuteronomy 12:32; Exodus 39:21; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Exodus 39:26
- 5 Exodus 29:4–37
- 6 Ephesians 5:26; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Exodus 29:4; Isaiah 1:16; Ezekiel 36:25
- 7 Exodus 28:4; Isaiah 61:10; Exodus 39:1–7; Exodus 29:5; Romans 13:14
- 8 Ezra 2:63; Exodus 28:15–30; Ephesians 6:14; Exodus 39:8–21; Song of Songs 8:6
- 9 Philippians 2:9–11; Exodus 28:36–38; Exodus 39:28–30; Zechariah 6:11–14; Exodus 28:4
- 10 Exodus 40:9–11; Leviticus 8:2; Exodus 30:23–29
- 11 Exodus 4:6; Exodus 30:29; Exodus 16:19; Titus 3:6; Exodus 16:14
- 12 Exodus 30:30; Psalm 133:2; Exodus 29:7; Leviticus 21:10–12; Leviticus 4:3
- 13 Exodus 29:8–9; 1 Peter 2:5; Exodus 40:14–15; Exodus 28:40–41; Revelation 5:10
- 14 Ezekiel 43:19; Leviticus 4:3–12; Exodus 29:10–14; Psalm 66:15; Leviticus 16:21
- 15 Leviticus 4:7; Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 4:17–18; Ephesians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 5:18–21
- 16 Exodus 29:13; Leviticus 3:3–5; Leviticus 4:8–9
- 17 Leviticus 4:11–12; Exodus 29:14; Galatians 3:13; Leviticus 6:30; Leviticus 4:21
- 18 Leviticus 8:2; Exodus 29:15–18; Leviticus 1:4–13
- 20 Leviticus 1:8
- 21 Ephesians 5:2; Exodus 29:18; Genesis 8:21; Leviticus 2:9; Leviticus 1:17
- 22 Leviticus 8:2; John 17:19; Ephesians 5:27; Ephesians 5:25; Revelation 1:5–6
- 23 Exodus 29:20; Leviticus 14:17; Leviticus 14:14; Romans 12:1; Romans 6:13
- 24 Hebrews 9:18–22
- 25 Proverbs 23:26; Exodus 29:22–25; Leviticus 3:9; Leviticus 3:3–5; Isaiah 53:10
- 26 Exodus 29:23; Acts 5:12; John 1:14; 1 Timothy 2:5
- 27 Hebrews 9:14; Exodus 29:24–37; Jeremiah 30:21; Leviticus 7:30–31
- 28 Exodus 29:25; Hebrews 10:14–22; Zechariah 13:7; Psalm 22:13–14
- 29 1 Peter 4:11; Exodus 29:26–27; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Isaiah 66:20; Leviticus 7:30–34
- 30 Exodus 29:21; Exodus 30:30; Numbers 3:3; Leviticus 10:3; 1 John 2:27
- 31 Exodus 29:31–32; Leviticus 6:28; Galatians 2:20; John 6:51; 1 Samuel 2:13–17
- 32 Exodus 29:34; Proverbs 27:1; Leviticus 7:17; Exodus 12:10; Hebrews 3:13–14
- 33 Exodus 29:35; Numbers 19:12; Ezekiel 43:25–27; Exodus 29:30; Leviticus 14:8
- 34 Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 10:11–12; Hebrews 7:16
- 35 Deuteronomy 11:1; 1 Kings 2:3; Numbers 3:7; Numbers 9:19; Hebrews 7:28
- 36 Deuteronomy 12:32; Exodus 40:16; 1 Samuel 15:22; Exodus 39:43; Deuteronomy 4:2
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And it is rightly named (Ecclesia) because it calls forth and assembles together all men; according as the Lord says in Leviticus, And make an assembly for all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)