8:18 Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
8:14 Then he brought near the sin offering bull 7 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,
8:22 Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, 8 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram
1 tn Heb “by the hand of” (so KJV).
1 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
2 tn Heb “may go out from you.”
3 tn Heb “fathers.”
1 tn Heb “And if.”
2 tn Heb “go out.”
1 sn See Lev 4:3-12 above for the sin offering of the priests. In this case, however, the blood manipulation is different because Moses, not Aaron (and his sons), is functioning as the priest. On the one hand, Aaron and his sons are, in a sense, treated as if they were commoners so that the blood manipulation took place at the burnt offering altar in the court of the tabernacle (see v. 15 below), not at the incense altar inside the tabernacle tent itself (contrast Lev 4:5-7 and compare 4:30). On the other hand, since it was a sin offering for the priests, therefore, the priests themselves could not eat its flesh (Lev 4:11-12; 6:30 [23 HT]), which was the normal priestly practice for sin offerings of commoners (Lev 6:26[19], 29[22]).
1 tn For “ordination offering” see Lev 7:37
1 sn A tenth of an ephah is about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306).
2 tn For the rendering “choice wheat flour” see the note on Lev 2:1.
1 tn Several major ancient versions have the passive form of the verb (see BHS v. 31 note c; cf. Lev 8:35; 10:13). In that case we would translate, “just as I was commanded.”