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Leviticus 9 Bible study: The LORD's glory appeared

On the eighth day, after seven days at the door of the tent, Aaron himself offers at the altar: first for his own sin, then for the people's (9:7-8, 9:15). Then he lifts up his hands and blesses them. The words "the LORD’s glory" are in Leviticus only here: promised in 9:6, it "appeared to all the people" (9:23), and fire from before the LORD consumed the offering (9:24).

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“Fire came out from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.”
Leviticus 9:24 · World English Bible

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“Leviticus 10:2 begins with the same words as Leviticus 9:24: "Fire came out from before the LORD".”

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What's really going on

After seven days, the eighth

In the text

Leviticus 8 ends with Aaron and his sons at the door of the tent: "You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days" (Leviticus 8:35), "until the days of your consecration are fulfilled" (Leviticus 8:33). Chapter 9 begins, "On the eighth day" (9:1). Moses gives the reason for all the offerings in one line: "for today the LORD appears to you" (9:4). Then he says it again: "This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do; and the LORD’s glory shall appear to you" (9:6). The rest of the chapter is that day.

Where it leads to Jesus

He lifted up his hands and blessed them

Interpretation

Leviticus 9:22leads toLuke 24:50-51

When the offerings are done, "Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them" (9:22). At the end of Luke's Gospel, Jesus "led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them" (Luke 24:50). "While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven" (Luke 24:51). Luke doesn't cite Leviticus 9, so setting the two side by side is an interpretation: some see in Jesus the priest who blesses his people after the offering is made; others read Luke's words on their own.

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  • Now Aaron is at the altar
  • First for himself, then for the people
  • What Moses said would happen, happened
  • The same order on the Day of Atonement
  • Seven days, then the eighth
  • When fire answered at the altar
  • 11 questions as you read
  • 8 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it

כָּבוֹדkavodsay ka-VOD

Strong's: "properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness". Brown-Driver-Briggs: "abundance, honour, glory". Moses promises, "the LORD’s glory shall appear to you" (9:6), and it does: "the LORD’s glory appeared to all the people" (9:23). Leviticus uses the word only in these two verses. Exodus had the same kind of moment before: "the LORD’s glory appeared in the cloud" (Exodus 16:10), and at the end, "the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle" (Exodus 40:34). On the mountain, "The appearance of the LORD’s glory was like devouring fire" (Exodus 24:17).

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Leviticus 9 Bible study questions

  1. 1Aaron offered for his own sin before he offered for the people (9:7-8). Why might it matter that someone who serves others deals with his own wrongs first?
  2. 2Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do; and the LORD’s glory shall appear to you" (9:6). What is a plain thing God has asked of you that you could simply do this week?
  3. 3When the people saw the fire, "they shouted, and fell on their faces" (9:24). When has something God did moved you to praise, or to silence?

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