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Leviticus 8 Bible study: As the LORD commanded Moses
Leviticus 8 is Exodus 29 carried out, in front of the whole congregation (8:3-4). Five times it says a step was done "as the LORD commanded Moses" (8:9, 8:13, 8:17, 8:21, 8:29), and it ends, "Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses" (8:36).
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“Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses.”
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“In Leviticus 8, all the congregation was gathered at the door of the Tent of Meeting when Aaron and his sons were made priests.”
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What's really going on
Exodus 29, done in front of everyone
On the mountain the LORD had told Moses how to make Aaron and his sons priests: "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy" (Exodus 29:1). Leviticus 8 is that command carried out. Now the LORD adds something Exodus 29 didn't mention: "assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting" (8:3). "The congregation was assembled" (8:4), and Moses told them, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done" (8:5). In Hebrew, 8:5 and Exodus 29:1 use the same words for "This is the thing" (zeh ha-davar). Then, step by step, what was commanded is done: washing (Exodus 29:4; 8:6), the garments (Exodus 29:5-6; 8:7-9), oil on Aaron's head (Exodus 29:7; 8:12), a bull and two rams (Exodus 29:1; 8:14-22), and blood on the right ear, thumb and toe (Exodus 29:20; 8:23-24).
Where it leads to Jesus
He has anointed me
Leviticus 8:12leads toLuke 4:18
Moses "poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him" (8:12). After Jesus was baptized, "the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him" (Luke 3:22). In the synagogue at Nazareth he read from Isaiah, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor" (Luke 4:18), and said, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:21). Peter later spoke of "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power" (Acts 10:38). None of these passages mentions Aaron or this chapter, and the anointing they describe is with the Spirit, for the work Isaiah names. Setting Jesus' anointing beside Aaron's is an interpretation: some read Aaron's anointing as a picture of Jesus' anointing (Acts 10:38), and others see only a shared word, since the New Testament never links the two.
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- Five times: as the LORD commanded Moses
- Everything made holy first
- What Exodus 29 didn't say
- Seven days, then the eighth
- 11 questions as you read
- 9 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
צָוָהtsavahsay tsa-VAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "lay charge (upon), give charge (to), charge, command, order". It comes eleven times in this chapter (8:4, 8:5, 8:9, 8:13, 8:17, 8:21, 8:29, 8:31, 8:34, 8:35, 8:36), five of them in the exact words "as the LORD commanded Moses" (8:9). Twice it is in Moses' own first person: "as I commanded" (8:31) and "for so I am commanded" (8:35). The last verse says the LORD commanded "by Moses" (8:36); in Hebrew, literally, "by the hand of Moses", with yad, hand (Brown-Driver-Briggs: "hand"). The same verb describes Nadab and Abihu's fire, "which he had not commanded them" (10:1).
For your group
Leviticus 8 Bible study questions
- 1Aaron and his sons were washed, dressed and made priests with the whole congregation gathered (8:3-6). What's it like for you to take a step with God where others can see it?
- 2Five times the chapter says a step was done "as the LORD commanded Moses" (8:9). Where do you find it hardest to do what God says his way rather than your own?
- 3Before they served, the priests stayed at the door of the Tent of Meeting "day and night seven days" (8:35). When have you had to wait before God before starting something, and what happened in the waiting?
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