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Leviticus 8:6 Bible in Basic English (BBE)

6 Then Moses took Aaron and his sons; and after washing them with water,

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Exodus 29:4 BBE

And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.

1 Corinthians 6:11 BBE

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:26 BBE

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

Exodus 30:19 BBE

That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

Exodus 40:12 BBE

Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water,

Psalms 26:6 BBE

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

Psalms 51:2 BBE

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Psalms 51:7 BBE

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Isaiah 1:16 BBE

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Ezekiel 36:25 BBE

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Zechariah 13:1 BBE

In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

John 13:8-10 BBE

Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

Hebrews 9:10 BBE

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

Hebrews 10:22 BBE

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Revelation 1:5-6 BBE

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood; And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.

Revelation 7:14 BBE

And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

Commentary on Leviticus 8 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible


CHAPTER 8

Le 8:1-36. Moses Consecrates Aaron and His Sons.

2. Take Aaron and his sons—The consecration of Aaron and his sons had been ordered long before (Ex 29:1-46), but it is now described with all the details of the ceremonial, as it was gone through after the tabernacle was completed and the regulations for the various sacrifices enacted.

3-5. gather thou all the congregation together, &c.—It was manifestly expedient for the Israelitish people to be satisfied that Aaron's appointment to the high dignity of the priesthood was not a personal intrusion, nor a family arrangement between him and Moses; and nothing, therefore, could be a more prudent or necessary measure, for impressing a profound conviction of the divine origin and authority of the priestly institution, than to summon a general assembly of the people, and in their presence perform the solemn ceremonies of inauguration, which had been prescribed by divine authority.

6. Moses … washed them with water—At consecration they were subjected to entire ablution, though on ordinary occasions they were required, before entering on their duties, only to wash their hands and feet. This symbolical ablution was designed to teach them the necessity of inward purity, and the imperative obligation on those who bore the vessels and conducted the services of the sanctuary to be holy.

7-9. he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle—The splendor of the official vestments, together with the gorgeous tiara of the high priest, was intended, doubtless, in the first instance, to produce in the minds of the people a high respect for the ministers of religion; and in the next, from the predominant use of linen, to inculcate upon Aaron and his sons the duty of maintaining unspotted righteousness in their characters and lives.

10-12. took the anointing oil, &c.—which was designed to intimate that persons who acted as leaders in the solemn services of worship should have the unction of the Holy One both in His gifts and graces.

14-17. brought the bullock for the sin offering, &c.—a timely expression of their sense of unworthiness—a public and solemn confession of their personal sins and a transference of their guilt to the typical victim.

18-21. brought the ram, &c.—as a token of their entire dedication to the service of God.

22-30. brought the other ram,—&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their sacred duties.

33. ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, &c.—After all these preliminaries, they had still to undergo a week's probation in the court of the tabernacle before they obtained permission to enter into the interior of the sacred building. During the whole of that period the same sacrificial rites were observed as on the first day, and they were expressly admonished that the smallest breach of any of the appointed observances would lead to the certain forfeiture of their lives [Le 8:35].