Numbers 8:8
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Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
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After this purification the Levites were to bring two young bullocks, one with the corresponding meat-offering for a burnt-sacrifice, the other for a sin-offering.
Open source ↗This chapter is concerning the lamps or lights of the sanctuary. I. The burning lamps in the candlestick, which the priests were charged to tend (Num 8:1-4). II. The living lamps (if I may so call them), The Levites, who as ministers were burning and shining lights. The ordination of the priests we had an account of, Lev. 8. Here we have an account of the ordination of the Levites, the inferior clergy. 1. How they were purified (Lev 8:5-8). 2. How they were parted with by the people (Lev 8:9, Lev 8:10). 3. How they were presented to God in lieu of the firstborn (Lev 8:11-18). 4. How they were consigned to Aaron and his sons, to be ministers to them (Lev 8:19). 5. How all these orders were duly executed (Lev 8:20-22). And, lastly, the age appointed for their ministration (Lev 8:23, etc.).
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“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.
“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.